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Overview

Robert Pincus is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research contributions primarily focus on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. The main subfields of study covered in their work include global and planetary change, atmospheric science, aerospace engineering, oceanography, and applied mathematics.

Their research encompasses a variety of topics related to the atmosphere and climate systems. The key themes in their work are atmospheric aerosols and clouds, climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric ozone and climate, and gas dynamics and kinetic theory.

Robert Pincus has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work include the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Earth System Science Data, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, and Geoscientific Model Development.

Notable recent papers by Robert Pincus reflect a range of atmospheric and climate research topics:

  • Effective radiative forcing and adjustments in CMIP6 models, 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • EUREC 4 A, 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • JOANNE: Joint dropsonde Observations of the Atmosphere in tropical North atlaNtic meso-scale Environments, 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • Accelerating Radiation Computations for Dynamical Models With Targeted Machine Learning and Code Optimization, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Measurements from the RV Ronald H. Brown and related platforms as part of the Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC), 2021, Earth System Science Data

In collaborative research, Robert Pincus frequently coauthors with Stefan A. Buehler, C. W. Fairall, Benjamin Fildier, E. J. Mlawer, and Oliviér Boucher. These partnerships reflect a network of ongoing work in atmospheric and Earth system science.

Best Publications

  • Atmospheric component of the MPI-M Earth System Model: ECHAM6

    Bjorn Stevens;Marco Giorgetta;Monika Esch;Thorsten Mauritsen

  • Developments in the MPI-M Earth System Model version 1.2 (MPI-ESM1.2) and Its Response to Increasing CO2.

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Thorsten Mauritsen;Jürgen Bader;Tobias Becker;Jörg Behrens

  • Cloud and aerosol properties, precipitable water, and profiles of temperature and water vapor from MODIS

    M.D. King;W.P. Menzel;Y.J. Kaufman;D. Tanre

  • The dynamical core, physical parameterizations, and basic simulation characteristics of the atmospheric component AM3 of the GFDL global coupled model CM3

    Leo J. Donner;Bruce L. Wyman;Richard S. Hemler;Larry W. Horowitz

  • Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity

    Sandrine Bony;Bjorn Stevens;Dargan M W Frierson;Christian Jakob

  • COSP: Satellite simulation software for model assessment

    Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo;M Webb;S Bony;H Chepfer

  • Taking climate model evaluation to the next level

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

  • Tuning the climate of a global model

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Bjoern Stevens;Erich Roeckner;Traute Crueger

  • Comparing clouds and their seasonal variations in 10 atmospheric general circulation models with satellite measurements

    M. H. Zhang;W. Y. Lin;S. A. Klein;S. A. Klein;J. T. Bacmeister

  • A fast, flexible, approximate technique for computing radiative transfer in inhomogeneous cloud fields

    Robert Pincus;Howard W. Barker;Jean-Jacques Morcrette

  • Effect of precipitation on the albedo susceptibility of clouds in the marine boundary layer

    Robert Pincus;Marcia B. Baker

  • Impact of a New Radiation Package, McRad, in the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System

    J. J. Morcrette;H. W. Barker;J. N. S. Cole;M. J. Iacono

  • Effective radiative forcing and adjustments in CMIP6 models

    Christopher J. Smith;Christopher J. Smith;Ryan J. Kramer;Ryan J. Kramer;Gunnar Myhre;Kari Alterskjær

  • Reconciling Simulated and Observed Views of Clouds: MODIS, ISCCP, and the Limits of Instrument Simulators

    Robert Pincus;Steven Platnick;Steven A. Ackerman;Richard S. Hemler

  • A First Course on Atmospheric Radiation

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  • Exposing Global Cloud Biases in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) Using Satellite Observations and Their Corresponding Instrument Simulators

    J. E. Kay;B. R. Hillman;B. R. Hillman;S. A. Klein;Y. Zhang

  • Low-Cloud Feedbacks from Cloud-Controlling Factors: A Review

    Stephen A. Klein;Alex Hall;Joel R. Norris;Robert Pincus;Robert Pincus

  • Recommendations for diagnosing effective radiative forcing from climate models for CMIP6

    Piers M. Forster;Thomas Richardson;Amanda C. Maycock;Christopher J. Smith

  • The Radiative Forcing Model Intercomparison Project (RFMIP): Experimental Protocol for CMIP6

    Robert Pincus;Robert Pincus;Piers M. Forster;Bjorn Stevens

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

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

  • Evaluating the present‐day simulation of clouds, precipitation, and radiation in climate models

    Robert Pincus;Crispian P. Batstone;Robert J. Patrick Hofmann;Karl E. Taylor

  • EUREC 4 A

    Bjorn Stevens;Sandrine Bony;David Farrell;Felix Ament

Frequent Co-Authors

Bjorn Stevens
Bjorn Stevens Max Planck Society
Stephen A. Klein
Stephen A. Klein Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Sandrine Bony
Sandrine Bony Université Paris Cité
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Thorsten Mauritsen
Thorsten Mauritsen Stockholm University
Aiko Voigt
Aiko Voigt Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Piers M. Forster
Piers M. Forster University of Leeds
Marco A. Giorgetta
Marco A. Giorgetta Max Planck Society
Steven Platnick
Steven Platnick Goddard Space Flight Center
Monika Esch
Monika Esch Max Planck Society

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