It also suggests that the AMV has served an important role
in the global climate variability observed during the last century.
Not exact matches
Growing scarcity
In addition to a growing scarcity of natural resources such as land, water and biodiversity «
global agriculture will have to cope with the effects of
climate change, notably higher temperatures, greater rainfall
variability and more frequent extreme weather events such as floods and droughts,» Diouf warned.
However, solar
variability alone can not explain the post-1970
global temperature trends, especially the
global temperature rise
in the last three decades of the 20th Century, which has been attributed by the Inter-Governmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere.»
The recent slowdown
in global warming has brought into question the reliability of
climate model projections of future temperature change and has led to a vigorous debate over whether this slowdown is the result of naturally occurring, internal
variability or forcing external to Earth's
climate system.
«
In part Arctic amplification is linked to
global warming, and part is natural
climate variability, and the challenge for researchers is to separate out the two,» he said.
The new study published
in the peer - reviewed journal
Global Change Biology says such increased flow
variability has the most negative effect on salmon populations of several
climate factors considered.
They also influence whether CO2 is stored
in the ocean or the atmosphere, which is very important for
global climate variability.
It highlights the fact that on multi-year timescales we have to view
climate variability in a
global perspective, rather than through a basin - wide lens,» says Jing - Jia Luo, co-author of the study and
climate scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology
in Australia.
These analyses, whilst not disproving the anthropogenic
global warming theory, do show that the
climate we are
in today is not unusual
in recent history, and therefore the possibility of natural
variability causing the warming can not be ruled out, as it seemingly has been by many «independent» scientists, and the IPCC.
His research interests include studying the interactions between El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the monsoons of Asia; identifying possible effects on
global climate of changing human factors, such as carbon dioxide, as well as natural factors, such as solar
variability; and quantifying possible future changes of weather and
climate extremes
in a warmer
climate.
Yeh, S. - W., and B.P. Kirtman, 2004: Decadal North Pacific sea surface temperature
variability and the associated
global climate anomalies
in a coupled GCM.
Hall, A., and S. Manabe, 1999: The role of water vapour feedback
in unperturbed
climate variability and
global warming.
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).
His research concerns understanding
global climate and its variations using observations and covers the quasi biennial oscillation, Pacific decadal oscillation and the annular modes of the Arctic oscillation and the Antarctic oscillation, and the dominant spatial patterns
in month - to - month and year - to - year
climate variability, including the one through which El Niño phenomenon
in the tropical Pacific influences
climate over North America.
Observed changes
in ocean heat content have now been shown to be inconsistent with simulated natural
climate variability, but consistent with a combination of natural and anthropogenic influences both on a
global scale, and
in individual ocean basins.
Natural
climate variability of the Arctic atmosphere, the impact of Greenland and PBL stability changes K. Dethloff *, A. Rinke *, W. Dorn *, D. Handorf *, J. H. Christensen ** * AWI Potsdam, ** DMI Copenhagen Unforced and forced long - term model integrations from 500 to 1000 years with
global coupled atmosphere - ocean - sea - ice models have been analysed
in order to find out whether the different models are able to simulate the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) similar to the real atmosphere.
Despite the difficulties of calibration that makes an absolute radiative imbalance measurement impossible — the anomalies data contains essential information on
climate variability that can be used to understand and close out the
global energy budget — changes
in which are largely OHC.
«There is high confidence that the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) will remain the dominant mode of natural
climate variability in the 21st century with
global influences
in the 21st century, and that regional rainfall
variability it induces likely intensifies.
«
Global ice» does have a long term decline, but because of the out of phase seasons
in each hemisphere, and the large interannual
variability — particularly
in the south, it isn't a reliable guide to what is going on with the
climate.
Brown, P. T., W. Li, L. Li, and Y. Ming (2014), Top - of - atmosphere radiative contribution to unforced decadal
global temperature
variability in climate models, Geophys.
If we have some time to prepare, the combination of lowering all the discussed emissions, utilizing current technology to implement alternative energy sources, and engineering new twists on said technology to both continue lowering emissions and adapting to
global climate changes as well, we may be able to guide our response sets to outside, artificial selective pressures
in conjunction with natural ones; natural, internal
variability and external forcings / feedbacks.
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 i
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 i
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).
Brown, P. T., W. Li, and S. P. Xie (2015), Regions of significant influence on unforced
global mean surface air temperature
variability in climate models, J. Geophys.
The
climate change literature offers a reasonable consensus that anthropogenic
global climate change is increasing the
variability of
climate, including central Pacific El Niño events and temperature fluctuations
in tropical and subtropical regions.
Given obviously irregular character of all historical data regarding
climate, it is a tough sell to start with an assumption that everything is
in a
global equilibrium, and only spontaneous external events like eruptions or large meteors are the cause of that
variability.
Thus, the title of the USF press release, «Frogs Getting Sick from
Climate Change,» is accurate in suggesting that climate change caused increased frog infection and infection - induced mortality, whether one interprets «climate change» as referring to the short - term temperature shifts investigated by our experiments, or to increased temperature variability caused by global climate
Climate Change,» is accurate
in suggesting that
climate change caused increased frog infection and infection - induced mortality, whether one interprets «climate change» as referring to the short - term temperature shifts investigated by our experiments, or to increased temperature variability caused by global climate
climate change caused increased frog infection and infection - induced mortality, whether one interprets «
climate change» as referring to the short - term temperature shifts investigated by our experiments, or to increased temperature variability caused by global climate
climate change» as referring to the short - term temperature shifts investigated by our experiments, or to increased temperature
variability caused by
global climate climate change.
It's painfully easy to paint oneself logically into a corner by arguing that either (i) vigorous natural
variability caused 20th century
climate change, but the
climate is insensitive to radiative forcing by greenhouse gases; or (ii) the
climate is very sensitive to greenhouse gases, but we still are able to attribute details of inter-decadal wiggles
in the
global mean temperature to a specific forcing cause.
«
Climate forcing results in an imbalance in the TOA radiation budget that has direct implications for global climate, but the large natural variability in the Earth's radiation budget due to fluctuations in atmospheric and ocean dynamics complicates this picture.
Climate forcing results
in an imbalance
in the TOA radiation budget that has direct implications for
global climate, but the large natural variability in the Earth's radiation budget due to fluctuations in atmospheric and ocean dynamics complicates this picture.
climate, but the large natural
variability in the Earth's radiation budget due to fluctuations
in atmospheric and ocean dynamics complicates this picture.»
What we find is that when interannual modes of
variability in the
climate system have what I'll refer to as an «episode,» shifts
in the multi-decadal
global mean temperature trend appear to occur.
The
climate system appears to have had three distinct «episodes» during the 20th century (during the 1910's, 1940's, and 1970's), and all three marked shifts
in the trend of the
global mean temperature, along with changes
in the qualitative character of ENSO
variability.
«Because the
global earth system is highly complicated, until a relationship between actual storm intensity and tropical
climate change is clearly demonstrated, it would be premature to conclude that such a link exists or is significant (from the standpoints of either event or outcome risk)
in the context of
variability.»
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.).)
Global temperature has
in recent years increased more slowly than before, but this is within the normal natural
variability that always exists, and also within the range of predictions by
climate models — even despite some cool forcing factors such as the deep solar minimum not included
in the models.
There can / will be local and regional, latitudinal, diurnal and seasonal, and internal
variability - related deviations to the pattern (
in temperature and
in optical properties (LW and SW) from components (water vapor, clouds, snow, etc.) that vary with weather and
climate), but the
global average effect is at least somewhat constrained by the
global average vertical distribution of solar heating, which requires the equilibrium net convective + LW fluxes,
in the
global average, to be sizable and upward at all levels from the surface to TOA, thus tending to limit the extent and magnitude of inversions.)
Natural
climate variability — including the periodic swings between El Nià ± o and La Nià ± a conditions
in the Pacific — will sometimes overshadow
global warming's influence on hurricanes, Trenberth said.
The United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC), in its Article 1, defines climate change as: «a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods&
Climate Change (UNFCCC),
in its Article 1, defines
climate change as: «a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods&
climate change as: «a change of
climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods&
climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the
global atmosphere and which is
in addition to natural
climate variability observed over comparable time periods&
climate variability observed over comparable time periods».
«a change of
climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the
global atmosphere and which is
in addition to natural
climate variability observed over considerable time periods.»
Ellsaesser on
global warming: «Natural
variability in the Earth's
climate easily exceeds recent
global temperature trends.»
There is also a natural
variability of the
climate system (about a zero reference point) that produces El Nino and La Nina effects arising from changes
in ocean circulation patterns that can make the
global temperature increase or decrease, over and above the
global warming due to CO2.
Indeed, the very strong interannual
variability of
global hurricane ACE (energy) highly correlated to ENSO, suggests that the role of tropical cyclones
in climate is modulated very strongly by the big movers and shakers
in large - scale,
global climate.
«
Climate Change» refers to the general subject matter of changes
in global or regional
climates that persist overtime, whether due to natural
variability or as a result of human activity.»
The SPARC database that was used for many
global model runs for the
Climate Modelling Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) displays the least interannual
variability and the most conservative trends
in ozone of the available databases.
The
global atmospheric circulation has a number of preferred patterns of
variability, all of which have expressions
in surface
climate.
«Because the primary source of ions
in the
global troposphere is galactic cosmic rays (GCRs), their role
in atmospheric nucleation is of considerable interest as a possible physical mechanism for
climate variability caused by the Sun.»
In my earlier posting, I tried to make the distinction that global climate change (all that is changing in the climate system) can be separated into: (1) the global warming component that is driven primarily by the increase in greenhouse gases, and (2) the natural (externally unforced) variability of the climate system consisting of temperature fluctuations about an equilibrium reference point, which therefore do not contribute to the long - term tren
In my earlier posting, I tried to make the distinction that
global climate change (all that is changing
in the climate system) can be separated into: (1) the global warming component that is driven primarily by the increase in greenhouse gases, and (2) the natural (externally unforced) variability of the climate system consisting of temperature fluctuations about an equilibrium reference point, which therefore do not contribute to the long - term tren
in the
climate system) can be separated into: (1) the
global warming component that is driven primarily by the increase
in greenhouse gases, and (2) the natural (externally unforced) variability of the climate system consisting of temperature fluctuations about an equilibrium reference point, which therefore do not contribute to the long - term tren
in greenhouse gases, and (2) the natural (externally unforced)
variability of the
climate system consisting of temperature fluctuations about an equilibrium reference point, which therefore do not contribute to the long - term trend.
«Anthropogenic
Climate change» means a quantified change of climate which isattributed directly or indirectly to human activity and distinguished from natural causes that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate trends and variability observed over comparable time p
Climate change» means a quantified change of
climate which isattributed directly or indirectly to human activity and distinguished from natural causes that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate trends and variability observed over comparable time p
climate which isattributed directly or indirectly to human activity and distinguished from natural causes that alters the composition of the
global atmosphere and which is
in addition to natural
climate trends and variability observed over comparable time p
climate trends and
variability observed over comparable time periods.
First, Happer mentions statistical significance, but
global surface temperature trends are rarely if ever statistically significant (at a 95 % confidence level) over periods as short as a decade, even
in the presence of an underlying long - term warming trend, because of the natural
variability and noise
in the
climate system.
Our ability to quantify the human influence on
global climate is currently limited because the expected signal is still emerging from the noise of natural
variability, and because there are uncertainties
in key factors.
Since the «pause», «hiatus», «slowdown», or «standstill», «
global»
climate models have had regional temperatures re calibrated (tuned)
in order to try and simulate natural
variability like ENSO, AMO etc..