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Overview

Mark D. Zelinka is affiliated with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a significant emphasis on earth and planetary sciences. Zelinka has contributed extensively to the understanding of climate variability, atmospheric processes, and the dynamics of planetary change.

The main areas of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broader fields, Zelinka's work concentrates on subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

The research topics covered include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Zelinka's recent scientific publications showcase a focus on climate sensitivity and cloud feedback mechanisms. Notable papers include:

  • Causes of Higher Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6 Models (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence (2020), Reviews of Geophysics
  • Climate simulations: recognize the 'hot model' problem (2022), Nature
  • Observational constraints on low cloud feedback reduce uncertainty of climate sensitivity (2021), Nature Climate Change
  • Intermodel Spread in the Pattern Effect and Its Contribution to Climate Sensitivity in CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models (2020), Journal of Climate

The frequent publication venues reflect the primary platforms for their research dissemination. These include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Climate
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Nature Climate Change

Zelinka has collaborated regularly with several researchers, among them:

  • Stephen A. Klein
  • Timothy A. Myers
  • Daniel T. McCoy
  • Yi Qin
  • Ivy Tan

Best Publications

  • Causes of Higher Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6 Models

    Mark D. Zelinka;Timothy A. Myers;Daniel T. McCoy;Stephen Po‐Chedley

  • An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence

    S C Sherwood;M J Webb;J D Annan;K C Armour

  • The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Overview and Evaluation at Standard Resolution

    Jean Christophe Golaz;Peter M. Caldwell;Luke P. Van Roekel;Mark R. Petersen

  • Climate simulations: recognize the ‘hot model’ problem

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  • Observational constraints on mixed-phase clouds imply higher climate sensitivity

    Ivy Tan;Trude Storelvmo;Mark D. Zelinka

  • Volcanic contribution to decadal changes in tropospheric temperature

    Benjamin D. Santer;Céline Bonfils;Jeffrey F. Painter;Mark D. Zelinka

  • Evidence for climate change in the satellite cloud record

    Joel R. Norris;Robert J. Allen;Amato T. Evan;Mark D. Zelinka

  • Cloud feedback mechanisms and their representation in global climate models

    Paulo Ceppi;Florent Brient;Mark D. Zelinka;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Evaluating adjusted forcing and model spread for historical and future scenarios in the CMIP5 generation of climate models

    Piers M. Forster;Timothy Andrews;Peter Good;Jonathan M. Gregory;Jonathan M. Gregory

  • Why is longwave cloud feedback positive

    Mark D. Zelinka;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Computing and Partitioning Cloud Feedbacks Using Cloud Property Histograms. Part I: Cloud Radiative Kernels

    Mark D. Zelinka;Stephen A. Klein;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Impact of decadal cloud variations on the Earth/'s energy budget

    Chen Zhou;Mark D. Zelinka;Stephen A. Klein

  • Contributions of Different Cloud Types to Feedbacks and Rapid Adjustments in CMIP5

    Mark D. Zelinka;Stephen A. Klein;Karl E. Taylor;Timothy Andrews

  • Computing and Partitioning Cloud Feedbacks Using Cloud Property Histograms. Part II: Attribution to Changes in Cloud Amount, Altitude, and Optical Depth

    Mark D. Zelinka;Stephen A. Klein;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Are climate model simulations of clouds improving? An evaluation using the ISCCP simulator

    Stephen A. Klein;Yuying Zhang;Mark D. Zelinka;Robert Pincus

  • Observational constraints on low cloud feedback reduce uncertainty of climate sensitivity

    Timothy A. Myers;Ryan C. Scott;Mark D. Zelinka;Stephen A. Klein

  • Insights from a refined decomposition of cloud feedbacks

    Mark D. Zelinka;Chen Zhou;Stephen A. Klein

  • Quantifying components of aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions in climate models

    Mark D. Zelinka;Timothy Andrews;Piers M. Forster;Karl E. Taylor

  • On the relationships among cloud cover, mixed-phase partitioning, and planetary albedo in GCMs

    Daniel T. McCoy;Ivy Tan;Dennis L. Hartmann;Mark D. Zelinka

  • Mixed‐phase cloud physics and Southern Ocean cloud feedback in climate models

    Daniel T. McCoy;Dennis L. Hartmann;Mark D. Zelinka;Paulo Ceppi;Paulo Ceppi

  • Statistical significance of climate sensitivity predictors obtained by data mining

    Peter M. Caldwell;Christopher S. Bretherton;Mark D. Zelinka;Stephen A. Klein

  • Climate Feedbacks and Their Implications for Poleward Energy Flux Changes in a Warming Climate

    Mark D. Zelinka;Dennis L. Hartmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen A. Klein
Stephen A. Klein Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dennis L. Hartmann
Dennis L. Hartmann University of Washington
Benjamin D. Santer
Benjamin D. Santer Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Karl E. Taylor
Karl E. Taylor Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Céline Bonfils
Céline Bonfils Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Joel R. Norris
Joel R. Norris University of California, San Diego
Carl A. Mears
Carl A. Mears Remote Sensing Systems (United States)
Andrew E. Dessler
Andrew E. Dessler Texas A&M University

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