CAPT Publications

Journal Papers

• Evaluating parameterizations in general circulation models:  Climate simulation meets weather prediction by Phillips et al., 2004: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 85, 1903-1915.

• Impact of a revised convective triggering mechanism on Community Atmosphere Model, Version 2, simulations: Results from short-range weather forecasts by Xie et al. : Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D14102, doi:10.1029/2004JD004692, 2004.

• Diagnosis of Community Atmospheric Model 2 (CAM2)  in numerical weather forecast configuration at Atmospheric Radiation Measurement sites by Boyle et al.: Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D15516, doi: 10.1029/2004JD005109, 2005.

• Moisture and temperature balances at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Southern Great Plains Site in forecasts with the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM2) by Williamson et al. : Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D15516, doi: 10.1029/2004JD005109, 2005.

• Diagnosis of the summertime warm and dry bias over the U.S. Gouthern Great Plains in the GFDL climate model using a weather forecasting approach by Klein et al.: Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L18805, doi: 10.1029/2006GL027567, 2006.

• Cluster analysis of tropical clouds using CloudSat data by Y. Zhang et al.: Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L12813, 10.1029/2007GL029336, 2007.
  

• A comparison of forecast errors in CAM2 and CAM3 at the ARM Southern Great Plains Site by Williamson and Olson, 2007: Journal of Climate, 20, 4572-4585.
  

• Climate model forecast experiments for TOGA COARE by Boyle et al., 2008: Monthly Weather Review , 136, 808-832.
  

• Simulations of Arctic mixed-phase clouds in forecasts with CAM3 and AM2 for M-PACE by Xie et al.: Journal of Geophysical Research,  113, D04211, doi:10.1029/2007JD009225, 2008 .

• Evaluation of tropical cloud and precipitation simulations of CAM3 using CloudSat and Calipso data by Y. Zhang et al.: Journal of Geophysical Research (submitted).

• Report on Activities Testing the Super-parameterization in the CAPT Framework (Potter et al. 2004)

• The CCPP Parameterization Testbed (CAPT): A Strategic Plan (Phillips et al. 2003)

• The CCPP-ARM Parameterization Testbed (CAPT): Where Climate Simulation Meets Weather Prediction (Phillips et al. 2004)

• A comparison of water vapor quantities from model short-range forecasts and ARM observations (Hnilo et al. 2006)

• A comparison of model short-range forecasts and the ARM Microbase data (Hnilo et al. 2006)
  

• Evaluation of Mixed-Phase Cloud Parameterizations in Short-Range Weather Forecasts with CAM3 and AM2 for M-PACE (Xie et al. 2007)