Principal Investigators (PIs) funded by project awards granted by the CPO Earth System Science and Modeling (ESSM) Division’s programs came out in force for the 101st American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting. Over 60 PIs chaired and/or presented for at least one AMS session.

A paper about increasing tropical cyclone intensity, published earlier this year and funded by a Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM) project award, is ranked as #3 of Climate Papers Most Featured in the Media in 2020.

Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP) and Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections (MAPP) funded a recent study which proposes a newly-named global teleconnection linking cooling temperature trends over Eurasia and warming trends in the Arctic to variability in low-frequency tropical sea surface temperatures.

In representing the transport of ocean properties such as heat or salinity, the smaller, more complex details may matter significantly according to researchers funded in part by the Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP) program. 

Researchers funded by both the CPO Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP) program and the Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections (MAPP) program rank the performance of over 30 CMIP5/6 climate models in reproducing observed atmosphere-sea ice relationships.