Application to
climate model output shows that these considerations are relevant to a wide range of typical climate - change applications.
Among these, he noted the close agreement
between climate model output and observations down to spatial scales smaller than continents, which forms a part of the detection and attribution literature.
A recent meta - analysis published in the journal Nature Climate Change, by Challinor et al. (2014) examines 1,722 crop model simulations, run using
global climate model output under several emissions scenarios, to evaluate the potential effects of climate change and adaptation on crop yield.
I am a climate scientist and have spent much of my career with my head buried
in climate model output and observational climate data, trying to tease out the signal of human - caused climate change.
This suggests the climate models need to be retooled to better reflect conditions in the actual climate, while policies based on
previous climate model output and predictions might need to be reconsidered.»
In discussion of
evaluating climate model output with satellite measurments, Chapter 9 references the study of Iacono et al. (2003) that evaluated the climate model of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and identified biases related to water vapor and radiative processes.
Numerical experiments
combining climate model outputs, water budgets, and socioeconomic information along digitized river networks demonstrate that (i) a large proportion of the world's population is currently experiencing water stress and (ii) rising water demands greatly outweigh greenhouse warming in defining the state of global water systems to 2025.
PDRMIP investigates the role of various drivers of climate change for mean and extreme precipitation changes, based on
multiple climate model output and energy budget analyses.
Mearns et al. (1997) and Mavromatis and Jones (1999) provide two of the few examples of using
climate model output directly as input into an impact assessment.
This Perspective considers how to better use and
explore climate model output, considering whether statisticians can help achieve better design of ensembles and interpretation of output.
A Human Influence On Precipitation «Has Yet To Be Detected» «
Climate model output suggests decreasing rainfall as a consequence of anthropogenic greenhouse gas radiative forcing.»
The incumbent will have access to available resources at PCIC and through our collaborators at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis (CCCma), including the
AR5 climate model output and seasonal hind cast projects.
Both observational data and statistically downscaled
global climate model output were used and the regions chosen were the Salmon and Willow headwater sub-basins in the Fraser River, in British Columbia.