Research Interests

I am interested in how we might better combine observations and simulations from climate models to improve our understanding and prediction of rainfall and clouds in a changing climate. In my current project, I work to develop and evaluate the latest generations of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model and analyze their simulation output.

 

Professional Experience

Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2019 to present

Postdoctoral Scholar, UC – Irvine, 2017 to 2019

Postdoctoral staff member, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2014 to 2017

Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

M.S. Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

A.B. Physics, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts

Caldwell, P.M., C. R. Terai, B. Hillman, N. D. Keen, P. Bogenschutz, W. Lin, et al. (2021). Convection-permitting simulations with the E3SM global atmosphere model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13, e2021MS002544. doi: 10.1029/2021MS002544

Hendrickson, J.M., C. R. Terai, M. S. Pritchard, and P. Caldwell (2021), Lower Tropospheric Processses: A Control on the Global Mean Precipitation Rate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2020GL091169, doi: 10.1029/2020GL091169.

Terai, C. R., M. S. Pritchard, P. Blossey, and C. S. Bretherton (2020), The impact of resolving subkilometer processes on aerosol-cloud interactions of low-level clouds in global model simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12, e2020MS002274. 

Terai, C. R., Y. Zhang, S. A. Klein, M. D. Zelinka, J. C. Chiu, and Q. Min (2019), Mechanisms behind extratropical stratiform low-cloud optical depth response to temperature in ARM site observations, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 124, 2127-2147.

Terai, C. R., P. M. Caldwell, and S. A. Klein, M. L. Branstetter, and Q. Tang (2017), The atmospheric hydrologic cycle in the ACME v0.3 model, Clim. Dyn., 1-29, doi: 10.1007/s00382-017-3803-x.

Terai, C. R., S. A. Klein, and M. D. Zelinka (2016), Constraining low-cloud optical depth feedbacks in climate models using satellite retrievals, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, doi: 10.1002/2016JD025233.

Terai, C. R., C. S. Bretherton, R. Wood, and G. Painter (2014), Aircraft observations of aerosol, cloud, precipitation, and boundary layer properties in pockets of open cells over the southeast Pacific, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 8071-8088, doi: 10.5194/acp-14-8071-2014.

 

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