Max J. Suarez

TL;DR: The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) was undertaken by NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office with two primary objectives: to place observations from NASA's Earth Observing System satellites into a climate context and to improve upon the hydrologic cycle represented in earlier generations of reanalyses as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: An overview of the MERRA-2 system and various performance metrics is provided, including the assimilation of aerosol observations, several improvements to the representation of the stratosphere including ozone, and improved representations of cryospheric processes.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple implementation of the Arakawa and Schubert (1974) cumulus parameterization is presented, where the major simplification made is to "relax" the state toward equilibrium each time the parameterization was invoked, rather than requiring that the final state be balanced.

TL;DR: In this paper, a benchmark calculation is proposed for evaluating the dynamical cores of atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs) independently of the physical parameterizations, focusing on the long-term statistical properties of a fully developed general circulation; thus, it is particularly appropriate for comparing the dynamics used in climate models.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple nonlinear model is proposed for the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, which includes oceanic wave transit effects through a negative, delayed feedback.