| Topic ID
| Educational Topic
| Geographic foci
| Datasets Used
| Details
|
| 1 |
Where is global warming? |
mid latitudes (+-60-30), low latitudes (+-30-0) |
ARGO ocean temperature, AMSRE sea surface temperature, ECMWF Reanalysis surface winds, TOA shortwave and longwave |
Educational Use Case 1 |
| 2 |
Tropical variability and analysis of ENSO forcing in observations and models |
The tropical band, mostly between 25°S and 25°N, and primarily along the Pacific |
ECMWF Sea-Surface Temperatures (SSTs), near surface winds, cloud fraction, ARGO Ocean Temperatures, NOAA NODC Ocean Heat Content, MODIS cloud top temperature, cloud optical depth (τ), and cirrus reflectance, CERES TOA LW cloud forcing, and a subset of these variables from both historical coupled climate models and atmosphere-only climate models (AMIP models). |
Educational Use Case 2 |
| 3 |
Variability of clouds and precipitation |
global, tropics (15S-15N), subtropics (15-30S/N), mid-latitude (30-50S/N) and selected regions (ITCZ, northeast Pacific and southeast Pacific) |
MODIS cloud fraction, GPCP/TRMM precipitation, AMSR-E sea surface temperature, CERES longwave and shortwave radiative fluxes, CMIP5 simulations of cloud fraction, precipitation and radiative fluxes |
Educational Use Case 3 |
| 4 |
Vegetation phenology and climatic controls |
northern latitude forests of North America, African sahel, Australia |
MODIS leaf area index, AIRS surface air temperature, TRMM precipitation, CERES surface downwelling shortwave radiation |
Educational Use Case 4 |
| 5 |
Land water storage variability as a function of human and natural controls |
Northern India, southwest US |
GRACE moisture storage (equivalent water height over land), TRMM precipitation, CERES surface downwelling shortwave radiation |
Educational Use Case 5 |
| 6 |
Sensitivity of equilibrium climate on physical parameterizations |
global, tropics and subtropics (30S-30N), mid-latitudes and polar regions (45N-90N; 45S-90S) |
8 WRF aqua-planet simulation results; horizontal and vertical velocity, cloud cover, water vapor and temperature profiles, precipitation and top of the atmosphere radiative fluxes |
Educational Use Case 6 |