This post is about the practical aspects of generating regional scenarios of
climate variability and change for the 21st century.
Jesse met Bob in 1978 during preparations for the first UN World Climate Conference and they work closely together on studies of the impacts of
climate variability and change for the next 20 years.
The vulnerability of the New York City metropolitan region to SLR was examined as part of the Metropolitan East Coast (MEC) Report for the National Assessment of Potential Consequences of
Climate Variability and Change for the United States.
The accurate use of climate information is key to the energy sector as it needs to tackle issues related to
climate variability and change for a robust planning of growing renewable energy, more diverse energy markets and management of changing risks.
It produced a National Assessment report that integrated key findings from regional and sectoral analyses and addressed questions about the implications of
climate variability and change for the United States.
(B) characterize and forecast
climate variability and change for specific regions, resources, and economic sectors; and
National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of
Climate Variability and Change for the United States.
Not exact matches
In November, countries will meet
for the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties
for negotiations under the U.N. Framework Convention on
Climate Change, where loss and damage from climate variability and climate change will be vital to discu
Climate Change, where loss and damage from climate variability and climate change will be vital to discus
Change, where loss
and damage from
climate variability and climate change will be vital to discu
climate variability and climate change will be vital to discu
climate change will be vital to discus
change will be vital to discussions.
CISA is one of 11 NOAA - supported Regional Integrated Sciences
and Assessments teams helping communities prepare
for and adapt to
climate variability and change through collaborations among
climate scientists
and decision - makers.
By comparison, phenacosaur anoles living in cloud forests have had very little exposure to temperature
variability for over 10 million years
and are very much at risk from
climate change, he said.
Because the Earth's
climate has a certain amount of natural
variability,
and those natural cycles can have warming
and cooling effects that last
for a couple of decades or even longer, Tebaldi said, it takes time to detect a
change.
Climate researchers from the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group ECUS at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre
for Polar
and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam have now investigated how temperature
variability changed as the Earth warmed from the last glacial period to the current interglacial period.
«Extreme weather conditions
and climate change account
for 40 % of global wheat production
variability.»
The research concludes that
for other
changes, such as regional warming
and sea ice
changes, the observations over the satellite - era since 1979 are not yet long enough
for the signal of human - induced
climate change to be clearly separated from the strong natural
variability in the region
So looking
for both increased rainfall in wet areas
and a shift in storm tracks away from the equator helped the researchers separate the signal of
climate change from the noise of natural
variability.
Emerging evidence
for variability in the coral calcification response to acidification, geographical variation in bleaching susceptibility
and recovery, responses to past
climate change,
and potential rates of adaptation to rapid warming supports an alternative scenario in which reef degradation occurs with greater temporal
and spatial heterogeneity than current projections suggest.
As the model runs progressed, those tiny differences grew
and expanded, producing a set of
climate simulations useful
for studying questions about
variability and change.
Unlike the freakish situation in California, where several years of low snowfall
and rainfall are serving as a reminder of the tremendous natural
variability in Pacific - influenced weather,
and the need to always be vigilant when it comes to managing water supplies, the situation in Washington resembles the parched
climate -
changed normal
for swaths of the West in the decades ahead.
Teams shall conduct applied regional
climate research
and projects to address the needs of local
and regional decisionmakers
for information
and tools to develop adaptation
and response plans to
climate variability and change.
It is well - established in climatology that different causes
and mechanisms have caused
climate changes in the past (orbital variations, plate tectonics, solar
variability, volcanic eruptions, etc.), so that a cause - effect relationship has to be determined
for each individual case, rather than looking
for one overall «driver».
Results from
climate models driven by estimated radiative forcings
for the 20th century (Chapter 9) suggest that there was little
change prior to about 1915,
and that a substantial fraction of the early 20th - century
change was contributed by naturally occurring influences including solar radiation
changes, volcanism
and natural
variability.
«In the face of natural
variability and complexity, the consequences of
change in any single factor,
for example greenhouse gas emissions, can not readily be isolated,
and prediction becomes difficult... Scientific uncertainties continue to limit our ability to make objective, quantitative determinations regarding the human role in recent
climate change, or the degree
and consequence of future
change.»
«This is important
for regional planning, because it allows policymakers to identify places where
climate change dominates the observed sea level rise
and places where the
climate change signal is masked by shorter - term regional
variability caused by natural ocean
climate cycles.»
January 2004: «Directions
for Climate Research» Here, ExxonMobil outlines areas where it deemed more research was necessary, such as «natural climate variability, ocean currents and heat transfer, the hydrological cycle, and the ability of climate models to predict changes on a regional and local scale.
Climate Research» Here, ExxonMobil outlines areas where it deemed more research was necessary, such as «natural
climate variability, ocean currents and heat transfer, the hydrological cycle, and the ability of climate models to predict changes on a regional and local scale.
climate variability, ocean currents
and heat transfer, the hydrological cycle,
and the ability of
climate models to predict changes on a regional and local scale.
climate models to predict
changes on a regional
and local scale.»
Previous
climate model projections of
climate change accounted
for external forcing from natural
and anthropogenic sources but did not attempt to predict internally generated natural
variability.
Although the magnitude of potential
climate change may be comparable to
variability experienced in the past, the rate of that
change is anticipated to be significantly greater (Diffenbaugh
and Field 2013), with substantial implications
for Montana's forests.
For birds
and amphibians, we considered exposure to five components of
climate change, namely
changes in mean temperature, temperature
variability, mean precipitation, precipitation
variability and sea level rise.
This basic idea has been taken up by a section of the solar physics community,
and a good recent summary of the evidence
for the proposition that solar
variability is an agent, if not the main agent, of the perceived recent
climate change associated with global warming, is given in Hoyt & Schatten (1997).
He is interested in
climate variability and changes in extremes
for adaptation
and applications.
«
Climate change refers to a change in the state of the climate identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and / or the variability of its properties and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer.
Climate change refers to a
change in the state of the
climate identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and / or the variability of its properties and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer.
climate identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by
changes in the mean
and / or the
variability of its properties
and that persists
for an extended period, typically decades or longer.»
Our framework links innovative approaches
for (1) generating high - resolution, probabilistic projection of future
climate and sea - level
changes and (2) empirically identifying robust statistical relationships characterizing how humans have responded to past
climate variability and past
climate change, in order to (3) project how humans may respond to uncertain future
changes.
The motivation
for the MCA arose from citizens
and organizations in Montana who have expressed interest in receiving timely
and pertinent information about
climate change, including information about historical
variability, past trends,
and projections of future impacts as they relate to topics of economic concern.
The Northwest
Climate Toolbox is a suite of free online applications designed by CIRC researchers and intended to help foresters, farmers, and water managers respond to and prepare for climate variability and
Climate Toolbox is a suite of free online applications designed by CIRC researchers
and intended to help foresters, farmers,
and water managers respond to
and prepare
for climate variability and
climate variability and change.
Thanks
for publishing this, there are folks who denigrated the work of scientists that claimed a solar -
climate (temperature) link because the
variability in solar energy output just wasn't enough to explain the temperature swings,
and perhaps they now realize that there could be another mechanism - similar to a transistor where small
changes in gate voltage can affect large
changes in power transmission - whereby solar activity can create significant effects on temperature.
I don't think anyone denies that the sun matters
for climate, but the question is whether the
variability of the sun in recent history has had the impact that we project from greenhouse gases over the next 100 —
and there, I think, a majority of your «AGW» ers» would think the evidence suggests that
changes in human forcing will likely be several times (at least) larger than any solar
variability we've seen in a thousand years or more.
In the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending
climate change — an additional global mean warming of 1 degree Celsius above the last decade — is far beyond the range of
climate variability experienced during the past thousand years
and poses global problems in planning
for and adapting to it.
Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse,
and includes pioneering
and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the
climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measure
climate record
and methods
for smoothing temporal data), decadal
climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measure
climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both
climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measure
climate model simulations
and observational data
for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the
climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measure
climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST
changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how
changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval
Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measure
Climate Anomaly
and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the
climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measure
climate changes of past centuries
and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones
and global sea level,
and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).
Assessing risks of
climate variability and climate change for Indonesian rice agriculture Rosamond L. Naylor, et al PNAS May 8, 2007 vol.
A globally warm medieval period could be a simple forced response to increased solar, in which case it doesn't imply any larger intrinsic
variability than already assumed,
and since solar has been pretty much constant over the last 50 years, improvements to our understanding of solar forced
climate changes are irrelevant
for the last few decades.
Starting from an old equilbrium, a
change in radiative forcing results in a radiative imbalance, which results in energy accumulation or depletion, which causes a temperature response that approahes equilibrium when the remaining imbalance approaches zero — thus the equilibrium climatic response, in the global - time average (
for a time period long enough to characterize the climatic state, including externally imposed cycles (day, year)
and internal
variability), causes an opposite
change in radiative fluxes (via Planck function)(plus convective fluxes, etc, where they occur) equal in magnitude to the sum of the (externally) imposed forcing plus any «forcings» caused by non-Planck feedbacks (in particular,
climate - dependent
changes in optical properties, + etc.).)
The uncertainties in the historical tropical cyclone records, the incomplete understanding of the physical mechanisms linking tropical cyclone metrics to
climate change,
and the degree of tropical cyclone
variability provide only low confidence
for the attribution of any detectable
changes in tropical cyclone activity to anthropogenic influences.
A more reasonable natural
variability / forcing argument might go something like this: 1) There is natural
variability of
climate due to solar activity 2) Climate is changing now 3) Forcing can result in climate change, but the response of the C cycle to forcing is poorly understood 4) Forcing is happening now 5) Forcing and / or solar activity could be to blame for current warming trends Is this unreas
climate due to solar activity 2)
Climate is changing now 3) Forcing can result in climate change, but the response of the C cycle to forcing is poorly understood 4) Forcing is happening now 5) Forcing and / or solar activity could be to blame for current warming trends Is this unreas
Climate is
changing now 3) Forcing can result in
climate change, but the response of the C cycle to forcing is poorly understood 4) Forcing is happening now 5) Forcing and / or solar activity could be to blame for current warming trends Is this unreas
climate change, but the response of the C cycle to forcing is poorly understood 4) Forcing is happening now 5) Forcing
and / or solar activity could be to blame
for current warming trends Is this unreasonable?
These factors driving the present
changes of the NHSM system are instrumental
for understanding
and predicting future decadal
changes and determining the proportions of
climate change that are attributable to anthropogenic effects
and long - term internal
variability in the complex
climate system.
Those main conclusions are that
climate is
changing in ways unusual against the backdrop of natural
variability; that human activities are responsible
for most of this unusual
change; that significant harm to human well - being is already occurring as a result;
and that far larger --- perhaps catastrophic — damages will ensue if serious remedial action is not started soon.
The tools
for adapting to
climate change are the same as those
for dealing with
climate variability,
and both are needed in northern Africa.
-- More than $ 600,000 to Clark University, with equal funding from the Gordon
and Betty Moore Foundation,
for Clark Labs to develop a system to improve monitoring, analysis
and prediction of the impacts of
climate variability and change on ecosystems, food
and health in Africa
and the Amazon.
The disagreement arises from different assessments of the value
and importance of particular classes of evidence as well as disagreement about the appropriate logical framework
for linking
and assessing the evidence — my reasoning is weighted heavily in favor of observational evidence
and understanding of natural internal
variability of the
climate system, whereas the IPCC's reasoning is weighted heavily in favor of
climate model simulations
and external forcing of
climate change.
In principle,
changes in
climate on a wide range of timescales can also arise from variations within the
climate system due to,
for example, interactions between the oceans
and the atmosphere; in this document, this is referred to as «internal
climate variability».
We can not rule out the possibility that some of the low - frequency Pacific
variability was a forced response to variable solar intensity
and changing teleconnections to higher latitudes that are not simulated by the models, or that non-climatic processes have influenced the proxies... the paleodata - model mismatch supports the possibility that unforced, low - frequency internal
climate variability (that is difficult
for models to simulate) was responsible
for at least some of the global temperature
change of the past millennium.»
It is clearly established that
climate variability affects the oceanic content of natural
and anthropogenic DIC
and the air - sea flux of CO2, although the amplitude
and physical processes responsible
for the
changes are less well known.