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4637
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1712

Overview

Peter J. Gleckler is affiliated with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States. Their research broadly focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, encompassing 28 and 24 publications respectively in these fields.

The scientist's work extensively covers subfields such as Atmospheric Science, with 25 publications, Global and Planetary Change (24 publications), Oceanography (3 publications), Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Key topics addressed in their research include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis.

Their publication record features notable papers including:

  • "Evaluating Climate Models with the CLIVAR 2020 ENSO Metrics Package," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "MJO Propagation Across the Maritime Continent: Are CMIP6 Models Better Than CMIP5 Models?," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Characterization of long period return values of extreme daily temperature and precipitation in the CMIP6 models: Part 1, model evaluation," 2020, Weather and Climate Extremes
  • "Evaluation of extreme sub-daily precipitation in high-resolution global climate model simulations," 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "Robust Evaluation of ENSO in Climate Models: How Many Ensemble Members Are Needed?," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent co-authors in Gleckler's research collaborations include Jiwoo Lee, Min-Seop Ahn, Paul Ullrich, Ana C. Ordoñez, and Yann Planton.

The scientist has published repeatedly in several venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Climate
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Weather and Climate Extremes

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of climate models

    G. M. Flato;J. Marotzke;B. Abiodun;Pascale Braconnot

  • Performance metrics for climate models

    P. J. Gleckler;K. E. Taylor;C. Doutriaux

  • Improved estimates of upper-ocean warming and multi-decadal sea-level rise

    Catia M. Domingues;John A. Church;John A. Church;Neil J. White;Neil J. White;Peter J. Gleckler

  • An Overview of the Results of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP I)

    W. Lawrence Gates;James S. Boyle;Curt Covey;Clyde G. Dease

  • Selecting global climate models for regional climate change studies

    David W. Pierce;Tim P. Barnett;Benjamin D. Santer;Peter J. Gleckler

  • Taking climate model evaluation to the next level

    Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Peter M. Cox;Gregory M. Flato;Peter J. Gleckler

  • Penetration of Human-Induced Warming into the World's Oceans

    Tim P. Barnett;David W. Pierce;Krishna M. AchutaRao;Peter J. Gleckler

  • OMIP contribution to CMIP6: experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project

    Stephen M. Griffies;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Paul J. Durack;Alistair J. Adcroft

  • Identification of human-induced changes in atmospheric moisture content

    B. D. Santer;C. Mears;F. J. Wentz;K. E. Taylor

  • Consistency of modelled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere

    B. D. Santer;P. W. Thorne;L. Haimberger;K. E. Taylor

  • Amplification of Surface Temperature Trends and Variability in the Tropical Atmosphere

    Benjamin D. Santer;Tom M. L. Wigley;Carl Mears;Frank J. Wentz

  • The effect of horizontal resolution on simulation quality in the Community Atmospheric Model, CAM5.1

    Michael F. Wehner;Kevin A. Reed;Fuyu Li;Prabhat

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

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

  • Separating signal and noise in atmospheric temperature changes: The importance of timescale

    Benjamin D. Santer;Carl A. Mears;C. Doutriaux;Peter Caldwell

  • Forced and unforced ocean temperature changes in Atlantic and Pacific tropical cyclogenesis regions

    B. D. Santer;T. M. L. Wigley;P. J. Gleckler;C. Bonfils

  • Evaluating Climate Models with the CLIVAR 2020 ENSO Metrics Package

    Yann Y. Planton;Eric Guilyardi;Andrew T. Wittenberg;Jiwoo Lee

  • Good Practice Guidance Paper on Assessing and Combining Multi Model Climate Projections

    R. Knutti;G. Abramowitz;M. Collins;V. Eyring

  • Incorporating model quality information in climate change detection and attribution studies

    B. D. Santer;K. E. Taylor;P. J. Gleckler;C. Bonfils

  • Industrial-era global ocean heat uptake doubles in recent decades

    Peter J. Gleckler;Paul J. Durack;Ronald J. Stouffer;Gregory C. Johnson

  • ESMValTool (v1.0) – a community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP

    Veronika Eyring;Mattia Righi;Axel Lauer;Martin Evaldsson

  • Quantifying underestimates of long-term upper-ocean warming

    Paul J. Durack;Peter J. Gleckler;Felix W. Landerer;Karl E. Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl E. Taylor
Karl E. Taylor Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Veronika Eyring
Veronika Eyring University of Bremen
Michael F. Wehner
Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Tim P. Barnett
Tim P. Barnett Scripps Institution of Oceanography
David W. Pierce
David W. Pierce University of California, San Diego
Benjamin D. Santer
Benjamin D. Santer Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Kenneth R. Sperber
Kenneth R. Sperber Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Gerald A. Meehl
Gerald A. Meehl National Center for Atmospheric Research
Tom M. L. Wigley
Tom M. L. Wigley University of Adelaide
Carl A. Mears
Carl A. Mears Remote Sensing Systems (United States)

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