Ganopolski, A. & Rahmstorf, S. Rapid changes of
glacial climate simulated in a coupled climate model.
Ganopolski, A. and S. Rahmstorf, 2001: Rapid changes of
glacial climate simulated in a coupled climate model.
Not exact matches
«In reality
climate models have been tested on multicentennial time scales against paleoclimate data (see the most recent PMIP intercomparisons) and do reasonably well at
simulating small Holocene
climate variations, and even
glacial - interglacial transitions.
In most cases, these range from about 2 to 4.5 C per doubled CO2 within the context of our current
climate — with a most likely value between 2 and 3 C. On the other hand, chapter 9 describes attempts ranging far back into paleoclimatology to relate forcings to temperature change, sometimes directly (with all the attendant uncertainties), and more often by adjusting model parameters to determine the
climate sensitivity ranges that allow the models to best
simulate data from the past — e.g., the Last
Glacial Maximum (LGM).
Models for
simulating glacial − interglacial
climate and / or CO2 evolution have often formulated dust forcing using Antarctic dust observations (39, 44 ⇓ — 46).
Current models are also able to reproduce the large - scale patterns of temperature during the Last
Glacial Maximum (LGM), indicating an ability to
simulate a
climate state much different from the present.
«Here, we show central China is a region that experienced a much larger temperature change since the Last
Glacial Maximum than typically
simulated by
climate models... We find a summertime temperature change of 6 — 7 °C that is reproduced by
climate model simulations presented here.»