Some features are common
across model ensembles.
You could go further and talk about tuning to «emergent constraints» for climate sensitivity, observational metrics that are correlated with climate sensitivity when looking
across model ensembles.
However, relationships between observable metrics and the predicted quantity of interest (e.g., climate sensitivity) can be explored
across model ensembles.
Not exact matches
The plot details here are so ludicrous and complicated that you'd need some really good actors to put them
across, and luckily Days of Future Past has two fine
ensembles at its disposal: not only Jackman and the original X-Men cohort (including Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen) but also the sleeker, more contemporary
models last seen in the mediocre prequel X-Men: First Class.
However, despite the same range of ECS in the CMIP5
models as in the CMIP3
models, there is no significant relationship
across the CMIP5
ensemble between ECS and the 20th - century ERF applied to each individual
model (Forster et al., 2013).
We can derive the underlying trend related to external forcings from the GCMs — for each
model, the underlying trend can be derived from the
ensemble mean (averaging over the different phases of ENSO in each simulation), and looking at the spread in the
ensemble mean trend
across models gives information about the uncertainties in the
model response (the «structural» uncertainty) and also about the forcing uncertainty — since
models will (in practice) have slightly different realisations of the (uncertain) net forcing (principally related to aerosols).
More complex metrics have also been developed based on multiple observables in present day climate, and have been shown to have the potential to narrow the uncertainty in climate sensitivity
across a given
model ensemble (Murphy et al., 2004; Piani et al., 2005).
«CMIP5
models do not seem to reproduce this effect and the equivalent aerosol - CF forcing
across the CMIP5
ensemble is basically zero.»
This is notable since CMIP5
models do not seem to reproduce this effect and the equivalent aerosol - CF forcing
across the CMIP5
ensemble is basically zero.
but this is the full CMIP3
ensemble, so at least the plot is sampling the range of choices regarding if and how indirect effects are represented, what the cloud radiative feedback & sensitivity is, etc.
across the
modelling community.
The
model's
ensemble - mean EOF accounts for 43 % of the variance on average
across the 40
ensemble members, and is largely similar to observations although the centers - of - action extend slightly farther east and the southern lobe is weaker (maximum amplitude of approximately 2 hPa compared to 3 hPa in observations; Fig. 3c).
This appears to be related to a poor representation of the spatial relationships between rainfall variability and zonal wind patterns
across southeast Australia in the latest Coupled
Model Intercomparison Project
ensemble, particularly in the areas where weather systems embedded in the mid-latitude westerlies are the main source of cool - season rainfall.
The mean minimum ice extent in September, averaged
across all
ensemble members and corrected for forward
model bias, is our projected ice extent.
The mean ice extent in September, averaged
across all
ensemble members, corrected for forward
model bias is our projected ice extent.
Where precision is an issue (e.g., in a climate forecast), only simulation
ensembles made
across systematically designed
model families allow an estimate of the level of relevant irreducible imprecision... In each of these
model —
ensemble comparison studies, there are important but difficult questions: How well selected are the
models for their plausibility?
The frequency distributions
across the
ensemble of
models may be valuable information for
model development, but there is no reason to expect these distributions to relate to the probability of real - world behaviour.
Webb et al (2013)[ix], who examined the origin of differences in climate sensitivity, forcing and feedback in the previous generation of climate
models, reported that they «do not find any clear relationships between present day biases and forcings or feedbacks
across the AR4
ensemble».
As running simulation
ensembles across systematically designed
model families would require billions of dollars and thousands times more computing power — we simply decide subjectively what a plausible solution looks like after the fact.
In CMIP5 there is no correlation between aerosol forcing and sensitivity
across the
ensemble, so the implication that aerosol forcing affects the climate sensitivity in such «forward» calculations is false... The spread of
model climate sensitivities is completely independent of historical simulations.»
While the time series of LLGHGs for the future scenarios are mostly identical
across the
ensemble, the concentrations of these gases in the 19th and early 20th centuries were left to the discretion of individual
modelling groups.
For example in the case of Knutti et al. (2006), a strong relationship between current behaviour and equilibrium climate sensitivity, that is found to hold
across a single
model ensemble, has no skill in predicting the climate sensitivity of the members of the CMIP3
ensemble.
A large
ensemble of climate
model simulations suggests that the frequency of extreme wet - to - dry precipitation events will increase by 25 % to 100 %
across California due to anthropogenic forcing.
Those results were fed into an
ensemble of climate forecasting
models, including the high - resolution RegCM3, which is capable of simulating daily temperatures
across small sections of the United States.