Colin Zarzycki's research is centered around simulating extreme atmospheric phenomena and bridging the gap between weather and climate. In particular, he is focused on cutting-edge, high-resolution modeling techniques. This allows for multiple research directions, including regional weather and climate prediction on timescales ranging from days to decades, the development of dynamical cores and sub-grid physical parameterizations, and software engineering on petascale computing systems. Zarzycki uses these techniques to investigate tropical cyclone dynamics in global climate models and to improve the community's capability to objectively detect weather extremes in "big (climate) data."
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Recent Publications
High-Resolution Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (HighResMIP2) towards CMIP7
Roberts, M. J., Reed, K. A., Bao, Q., Barsugli, J. J., Camargo, S. J., Caron, L. P., Chang, P., Chen, C. T., Christensen, H. M., Danabasoglu, G., Frenger, I., Fučkar, N. S., Ul Hasson, S., Hewitt, H. T., Huang, H., Kim, D., Kodama, C., Lai, M., Leung, L. Y. R. & Mizuta, R. & 15 others, , Mar 3 2025, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 18, 4, p. 1307-1332 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Identifying, Tracking, and Evaluating Mechanisms of North American Cold Air Outbreaks (CAOs) Using a Feature Tracking Approach
Stone, J., Gervais, M., Bowley, K. A. & Zarzycki, C., Jan 2025, In: Monthly Weather Review. 153, 1, p. 153-168 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Tropical Cyclone Wind Shear-Relative Asymmetry in Reanalyses
Carstens, J. D., Didlake, A. C. & Zarzycki, C. M., Nov 2024, In: Journal of Climate. 37, 22, p. 5793-5816 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Effect of Coupling Between CLUBB Turbulence Scheme and Surface Momentum Flux on Global Wind Simulations
Gentile, E. S., Zhao, M., Larson, V. E., Zarzycki, C. & Tan, Z., May 2024, In: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16, 5, e2024MS004295.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Using EUREC4A/ATOMIC field campaign data to improve trade wind regimes in the Community Atmosphere Model
Graap, S. & Zarzycki, C. M., Feb 23 2024, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 17, 4, p. 1627-1650 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A Method for Interpreting the Role of Parameterized Turbulence on Global Metrics in the Community Earth System Model
Nardi, K. M., Zarzycki, C. M. & Larson, V. E., Oct 2024, In: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16, 10, e2024MS004482.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Assessing South Indian Ocean tropical cyclone characteristics in HighResMIP simulations
Pall, P., Gagnon, A. S., Bollasina, M. A., Zarzycki, C. M., Huang, Y., Beckett, C. T. S., Ramanantoanina, H. & Reynolds, T. P. S., Nov 15 2024, In: International Journal of Climatology. 44, 13, p. 4792-4808 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Anticipating how rain-on-snow events will change through the 21st century: lessons from the 1997 new year’s flood event
Rhoades, A. M., Zarzycki, C. M., Hatchett, B. J., Inda-Diaz, H., Rudisill, W., Bass, B., Dennis, E., Heggli, A., McCrary, R., McGinnis, S., Ombadi, M., Rahimi-Esfarjani, S., Slinskey, E., Srivastava, A., Szinai, J., Ullrich, P. A., Wehner, M., Yates, D. & Jones, A. D., Sep 2024, In: Climate Dynamics. 62, 9, p. 8615-8637 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change
Shields, C. A., Li, H., Castruccio, F. S., Fu, D., Nardi, K., Liu, X. & Zarzycki, C., Dec 2024, In: Communications Earth and Environment. 5, 1, 603.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
LSTM-Based Data Integration to Improve Snow Water Equivalent Prediction and Diagnose Error Sources
Song, Y., Tsai, W. P., Gluck, J., Rhoades, A., Zarzycki, C., McCrary, R., Lawson, K. & Shen, C., Jan 2024, In: Journal of Hydrometeorology. 25, 1, p. 223-237 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
DCMIP2016: The tropical cyclone test case
Willson, J. L., Reed, K. A., Jablonowski, C., Kent, J., Lauritzen, P. H., Nair, R., Taylor, M. A., Ullrich, P. A., Zarzycki, C. M., Hall, D. M., Dazlich, D., Heikes, R., Konor, C., Randall, D., Dubos, T., Meurdesoif, Y., Chen, X., Harris, L., Kühnlein, C. & Lee, V. & 7 others, , Apr 3 2024, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 17, 7, p. 2493-2507 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Algorithmically detected rain-on-snow flood events in different climate datasets: A case study of the Susquehanna River basin
Zarzycki, C. M., Ascher, B. D., Rhoades, A. M. & McCrary, R. R., Sep 30 2024, In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 24, 10, p. 3315-3335 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Changes in Four Decades of Near-CONUS Tropical Cyclones in an Ensemble of 12 km Thermodynamic Global Warming Simulations
Zarzycki, C. M., Zhang, T., Jones, A. D., Rastogi, D., Vahmani, P. & Ullrich, P. A., Sep 28 2024, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 51, 18, e2024GL110535.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
CORRIGENDUM: Metrics for evaluating tropical cyclones in climate data (J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol. 60, (643-660), 10.1175/JAMC-D-20-0149.1)
Zarzycki, C. M., Ullrich, P. A. & Reed, K. A., Nov 2024, In: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 63, 11, p. 1441 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Connecting Large-Scale Meteorological Patterns to Extratropical Cyclones in CMIP6 Climate Models Using Self-Organizing Maps
Gore, M. J., Zarzycki, C. M. & Gervais, M. M., Aug 2023, In: Earth's Future. 11, 8, e2022EF003211.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review