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Overview

Tapio Schneider is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental and earth sciences, with a focus on atmospheric science and climate modeling.

The main fields of study of Schneider include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their subfields of specialization cover Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Mechanics, and General Health Professions.

Schneider's work is frequently published in notable venues such as the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, arXiv (Cornell University), Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Computational Physics, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Recent papers by Schneider and collaborators include:

  • "Pattern Recognition Methods to Separate Forced Responses from Internal Variability in Climate Model Ensembles and Observations" (2020), Journal of Climate
  • "Calibrate, Emulate, Sample" (2020), Journal of Computational Physics
  • "Calibration and Uncertainty Quantification of Convective Parameters in an Idealized GCM" (2021), Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Harnessing AI and Computing to Advance Climate Modelling and Prediction" (2023), Nature Climate Change
  • "Assessing Biases and Climate Implications of the Diurnal Precipitation Cycle in Climate Models" (2021), Geophysical Research Letters

Key topics in Schneider's research include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate Variability and Models, Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows.

Schneider has collaborated frequently with several researchers, with multiple coauthored publications alongside Andrew M. Stuart, Oliver R. A. Dunbar, Ignacio Lopez-Gomez, Zhaoyi Shen, and Stephen M. Griffies.

Best Publications

  • Migrations and dynamics of the intertropical convergence zone

    Tapio Schneider;Tobias Bischoff;Gerald H. Haug

  • The physical basis for increases in precipitation extremes in simulations of 21st-century climate change

    Paul Ambrose O'Gorman;Tapio Schneider

  • Analysis of Incomplete Climate Data: Estimation of Mean Values and Covariance Matrices and Imputation of Missing Values.

    Tapio Schneider

  • Estimation of parameters and eigenmodes of multivariate autoregressive models

    Arnold Neumaier;Tapio Schneider

  • WATER VAPOR AND THE DYNAMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGES

    Tapio Schneider;Paul A. O'Gorman;Xavier J. Levine

  • Algorithm 808: ARfit—a matlab package for the estimation of parameters and eigenmodes of multivariate autoregressive models

    Tapio Schneider;Arnold Neumaier

  • The General Circulation of the Atmosphere

    Tapio Schneider

  • Earth System Modeling 2.0: A Blueprint for Models That Learn From Observations and Targeted High‐Resolution Simulations

    Tapio Schneider;Shiwei Lan;Andrew Stuart;João Teixeira

  • Eddy Influences on Hadley Circulations: Simulations with an Idealized GCM

    Christopher C. Walker;Tapio Schneider

  • The Hydrological Cycle over a Wide Range of Climates Simulated with an Idealized GCM

    Paul A. O'Gorman;Tapio Schneider

  • Climate goals and computing the future of clouds

    Tapio Schneider;João Teixeira;Christopher S. Bretherton;Florent Brient

  • Monsoons as eddy-mediated regime transitions of the tropical overturning circulation

    Simona Bordoni;Simona Bordoni;Tapio Schneider

  • A Conceptual Framework for Predictability Studies

    Tapio Schneider;Stephen M. Griffies

  • Possible climate transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under greenhouse warming

    Tapio Schneider;Colleen M. Kaul;Kyle G. Pressel

  • Scaling of Precipitation Extremes over a Wide Range of Climates Simulated with an Idealized GCM

    Paul Ambrose O'Gorman;Tapio Schneider

  • Energetic Constraints on the Position of the Intertropical Convergence Zone

    Tobias Bischoff;Tapio Schneider

  • The Surface Branch of the Zonally Averaged Mass Transport Circulation in the Troposphere

    Isaac M. Held;Tapio Schneider

  • Physics of Changes in Synoptic Midlatitude Temperature Variability

    Tapio Schneider;Tobias Bischoff;Hanna Płotka

  • The tropopause and the thermal stratification in the extratropics of a dry atmosphere

    Tapio Schneider

  • Polar methane accumulation and rainstorms on Titan from simulations of the methane cycle

    T. Schneider;S. D. B. Graves;E. L. Schaller;M. E. Brown

  • Atmospheric dynamics of Earth-like tidally locked aquaplanets

    Timothy M Merlis;Tapio Schneider

Frequent Co-Authors

João Paulo Teixeira
João Paulo Teixeira University of Porto
Andrew M. Stuart
Andrew M. Stuart California Institute of Technology
Michael E. Brown
Michael E. Brown University of Dundee
Piero Lionello
Piero Lionello University of Salento
Adam H. Sobel
Adam H. Sobel Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Leigh N. Fletcher
Leigh N. Fletcher University of Leicester
Isaac M. Held
Isaac M. Held Princeton University
David S. Battisti
David S. Battisti University of Washington
James T. Randerson
James T. Randerson University of California, Irvine

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