Sentences with phrase «climate model runs»

If the «real world run» contains some significant «contamination» that no other run contains (or that only a limited number of runs contain), then until he finds that run we can have no confidence that other climate model runs tell us anything about an important aspect of reality.
It reports that over the 1998 - 2012 interval 111 out of 114 climate model runs over-predicted warming, achieving thereby, as it were, a 97 % consensus.
The MaRIUS project will make use of the large ensemble of regional climate model runs available from our weather@home experiments.
The five thin lines are the climate model runs.
And one last point: climate model runs are not * expected * to reproduce the exact details of weather over time, because each features its own internal «weather».
«Climate model runs are not experiments.
Liu et al. selected the climate model runs that agreed most closely with the observed sea ice decline.
Show me the empirical data, based on real - time physical observations or reproducible experimentation (NOT climate model runs), which support the premise that GH warming requires decades or even centuries to reach «equilibrium».
A parallel development phase with climate model runs and development of new socio - economic scenarios.
This requirement directly follows from the purpose of the RCPs to facilitate climate model runs that are relevant for policy - making and scientific assessment (and thus cover the full uncertainty range).
A climate model runs on many imperfect assumptions, including crucially the precise warming potential of carbon dioxide.
One thing claimed is that the long run projections of the climate model runs can't be trusted because the ensemble does not do that great a job of predicting today from recent history of observations.
However, the question is whether the large time and human resources that are used to create these climate model runs could be more effectively used for other scenario methodologies [which would be much less costly] and, even more importantly, in developing responses to climate (and other environmental threats) so as to reduce the risks we face.
[16] Lorenz P, Jacob D (2010) Validation of temperature trends in the ENSEMBLES regional climate model runs driven by ERA40.
This result is in fact consistent with individual climate model runs.
The attempt to distinguish between the terms «projection» and «prediction», whether by the IPCC or others, has introduced an unnecessary confusion to the impacts and policy communities regarding the skill of regional and local multi-decadal climate model runs.
The authors» of the papers that I listed do indeed discuss skill at predicting (in hindcast runs) the ability of multi-decadal climate model runs to simulate the real world observed climate.
Instead, Emanuel's study is based on thousands of climate model runs to find out the odds a storm will bring the amount of rainfall Hurricane Harvey did when it made landfall in late August 2017.
Our Figure 5 from Stroeve et al. (2012) shows that 80 % of the individual climate model runs have trends that are less than observations (black band).
In the process, Spencer and Braswell excluded the three of the climate model runs which best matched the observational data, and also cherrypicked the data set furthest from the model runs (HadCRUT)(Figure 1).
So my point is that yes, the actual climate model runs we used * do * show a lot of decadal and higher frequency decadal variability.
From five climate model runs of the 21st century the authors derive 500 years worth of simulations.
There is nothing wrong per se in splicing records together to get a continuous series — for instance I have just done the exact same thing in creating a series of solar forcing functions for climate model runs — but these things should be clearly explained.
To determine effects of both natural climate forcings and the human contribution, the researchers examined global climate model runs from the latest set of models, known as CMIP5, produced for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.
In examining the ultimate transdisciplinary issue, humanity's evolving two - way relationship with the climate, I've had the rare privilege of studying the whole picture, from the climate models running on supercomputers in Boulder in 1985 to the burning rain forests of the western Amazon in 1989 to the shifting sea ice around the North Pole in 2003 to the contentious climate treaty talks in one city after another.
Wehner pointed out that while humans can (and do) perform well in identifying and tracking extreme weather events in real time, they simply can not keep up when climate models run two to five orders of magnitude faster.
Recall that in their 2001 Third Assessment Report, the IPCC gives a range of temperature increase between 1990 and 2100 of 1.4 and 5.8 ºC based upon the simulated output from 7 different climate models run under 35 different emissions scenarios — each of which the IPCC claimed as having an equal probability of occurrence.
The main reason climate models run into the future are not really predictions is that it is very expesnive to run each scenario, and so there are far too many of them to run every plausible case.
Other climate models run for standard global warming scenarios only rarely show this level of cooling.
Forest et al. 2006 compares observations of multiple surface, upper air and deep - ocean temperature changes with simulations thereof by the MIT 2D climate model run at many climate parameter settings.
The feedbacks can be studied in the global climate models running on the big computers.
He found that a simple formula that can easily be run on a laptop performed as well or possibly better than the climate models running on million - dollar supercomputers.
(I'm sure that there's a climate model run in the CMIP 5 ensemble that is pretty close to the real world history, but I've never seen individual runs broken out separately.)
Each climate model run is like an alternate world.
That «fingerprint» studies have proclaimed success at matching observed patterns of climate change with those projected by climate models run with anthropogenic atmospheric inputs — yet which omit black carbon — can only be a sign of overfitting.
Finally, the statistical estimate for the transient climate response falls within the range of estimates generated by climate models run for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)(26).
Knutson and Tuleya (2004) show that climate models run with increasing CO2 project that in the tropics the atmosphere should become more stable as there is more warming aloft than at the surface.
Examining the output of climate models run under increases in human emissions of greenhouse gas and aerosols, Troy Masters noted a robust relationship between the modeled rate of heat uptake in the global oceans and the modeled climate sensitivity.
In examining the ultimate transdisciplinary issue, humanity's evolving two - way relationship with the climate, I've had the rare privilege of studying the whole picture, from the climate models running on supercomputers in Boulder in 1985 to the burning rain forests of the western Amazon in 1989 to the shifting sea ice around the North Pole in 2003 to the contentious climate treaty talks in one city after another.
The climate models run on this supercomputer will «magically» produce 3.25 C of warming by 2100, verifying the results of all other climate model simulations run before.
Each individual climate model run has a random representation of these natural ocean cycles, so for every 15 - year period, some of those simulations will have accurately represented the actual El Niño conditions just by chance.

Not exact matches

Scientists will run a model of the storm but adjust for climate change — derived changes in CO2.
You are saying, the model says that we could run the risk at two degrees of climate change and these are reasons why we might do that, or you could run it at 1 % and these are the political implications.
Not only was Prisle successful, but running simulations with her model made a big difference in climate predictions.
Importantly, when modern climate models — the same as those used in the United Nations» recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports — were run under Eocene conditions, many could not replicate these ficlimate models — the same as those used in the United Nations» recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports — were run under Eocene conditions, many could not replicate these fiClimate Change reports — were run under Eocene conditions, many could not replicate these findings.
Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist and modeler at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said this sort of research is useful for modelers, who can take these results and see whether they show up when they run their models.
When ocean cycle shifts, globe is likely to warm up When climate models were run that included the stronger winds, they were able to reproduce the slowdown in surface temperatures.
When scientists use climate models for attribution studies, they first run simulations with estimates of only «natural» climate influences over the past 100 years, such as changes in solar output and major volcanic eruptions.
No time to adapt In terms of adaptation, the rate of climate change might be more important than how much the climate changes, said Alan Robock, a climate scientist at Rutgers University who ran some of the models for the study.
Over the past 10 to 15 years, we have been running experiments with very complex and increasingly reliable global climate models.
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