This model's forced response agrees very well with the observed surface temperatures averaged over the North Atlantic, so in this model one doesn't need to invoke
internal multidecadal variability to match these observations.
Not exact matches
The recent slowdown in global temperature increase is consistent with
internal Pacific and Atlantic
multidecadal variability.
If you are trying to attribute warming over a short period, e.g. since 1980, detection requires that you explicitly consider the phasing of
multidecadal natural
internal variability during that period (e.g. AMO, PDO), not just the spectra over a long time period.
Patterns of
variability that don't match the predicted fingerprints from the examined drivers (the «residuals») can be large — especially on short - time scales, and look in most cases like the modes of
internal variability that we've been used to; ENSO / PDO, the North Atlantic
multidecadal oscillation etc..
Then when climategate triggered me to closely examine everything, notably the IPCC's attribution argument, I realized that the fingerprints were «muddy», the climate models are running too hot, the forcing data is uncertain, no account is made for
multidecadal and longer
internal variability, and they have no explanation for the warming 1910 - 1940, the cooling 1940 - 1976, and the hiatus since 1998.
«On forced temperature changes,
internal variability, and the AMO» «Tracking the Atlantic
Multidecadal Oscillation through the last 8,000 years» «The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation as a dominant factor of oceanic influence on climate» «The role of Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation in the global mean temperature variability» «The North Atlantic Oscillation as a driver of rapid climate change in the Northern Hemisphere» «The Atlanto - Pacific multidecade oscillation and its imprint on the global temperature record» «Imprints of climate forcings in global gridded temperature data» «North Atlantic Multidecadal SST Oscillation: External forcing versus internal variability» «Forced and internal twentieth - century SST trends in the North Atlantic» «Interactive comment on «Imprints of climate forcings in global gridded temperature data» by J. Mikšovský et al.» «Atlantic and Pacific multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere tempera
Multidecadal Oscillation through the last 8,000 years» «The Atlantic
Multidecadal Oscillation as a dominant factor of oceanic influence on climate» «The role of Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation in the global mean temperature variability» «The North Atlantic Oscillation as a driver of rapid climate change in the Northern Hemisphere» «The Atlanto - Pacific multidecade oscillation and its imprint on the global temperature record» «Imprints of climate forcings in global gridded temperature data» «North Atlantic Multidecadal SST Oscillation: External forcing versus internal variability» «Forced and internal twentieth - century SST trends in the North Atlantic» «Interactive comment on «Imprints of climate forcings in global gridded temperature data» by J. Mikšovský et al.» «Atlantic and Pacific multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere tempera
Multidecadal Oscillation as a dominant factor of oceanic influence on climate» «The role of Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation in the global mean temperature
variability» «The North Atlantic Oscillation as a driver of rapid climate change in the Northern Hemisphere» «The Atlanto - Pacific multidecade oscillation and its imprint on the global temperature record» «Imprints of climate forcings in global gridded temperature data» «North Atlantic
Multidecadal SST Oscillation: External forcing versus internal variability» «Forced and internal twentieth - century SST trends in the North Atlantic» «Interactive comment on «Imprints of climate forcings in global gridded temperature data» by J. Mikšovský et al.» «Atlantic and Pacific multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere tempera
Multidecadal SST Oscillation: External forcing versus
internal variability» «Forced and
internal twentieth - century SST trends in the North Atlantic» «Interactive comment on «Imprints of climate forcings in global gridded temperature data» by J. Mikšovský et al.» «Atlantic and Pacific
multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere tempera
multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere temperatures»
They do a poor job at simulating the observed modes of natural
internal climate
variability (e.g. the
multidecadal ocean oscillations).
«Atlantic and Pacific
multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere temperatures» «On forced temperature changes, internal variability, and the AMO» «Tracking the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation through the last 8,000
multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere temperatures» «On forced temperature changes,
internal variability, and the AMO» «Tracking the Atlantic
Multidecadal Oscillation through the last 8,000
Multidecadal Oscillation through the last 8,000 years»
The results obtained from the five Coupled Global Climate Model, version 3, (CGCM3)- driven CRCM runs are similar, suggesting that the
multidecadal internal variability is not a large source of uncertainty for the Peace River basin.
Another source of
internal climate
variability that may contribute to the inconsistency is the Atlantic
multidecadal oscillation (AMO).
A lot of work was devoted during the last years to understand the dynamics of the
multidecadal variability, and external as well as
internal mechanisms were proposed.
Necessary (but not sufficient) for a credible fingerprinting attribution is to understand the fingerprints associated with natural
internal variability on
multidecadal and longer timescales, which is essentially ignored.
What was done, was to take a large number of models that could not reasonably simulate known patterns of natural behaviour (such as ENSO, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, the Atlantic
Multidecadal Oscillation), claim that such models nonetheless accurately depicted natural
internal climate
variability, and use the fact that these models could not replicate the warming episode from the mid seventies through the mid nineties, to argue that forcing was necessary and that the forcing must have been due to man.
«
Internal and external forcing of
multidecadal Atlantic climate
variability over the past 1,200 years» Authors: Jianglin Wang1, Bao Yang1, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist2, 3, Jürg Luterbacher4, 5, Timothy J. Osborn6, Keith R. Briffa6, Eduardo Zorita7, Available at — https://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2962.html Nature Geoscience (2017) doi: 10.1038 / ngeo2962
Current GCMs inadequate for simulating natural
internal variability on
multidecadal time scales.
A recurrent
multidecadal oscillation is found to extend to the preindustrial era in the 353 - y Central England Temperature and is likely an internal variability related to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), possibly caused by the thermohaline circulation
multidecadal oscillation is found to extend to the preindustrial era in the 353 - y Central England Temperature and is likely an
internal variability related to the Atlantic
Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), possibly caused by the thermohaline circulation
Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), possibly caused by the thermohaline circulation
variability.
The presence of
multidecadal internal variability superimposed on the secular trend gives the appearance of accelerated warming and cooling episodes at roughly regular intervals.
Quantitatively, the recurrent
multidecadal internal variability, often underestimated in attribution studies, accounts for 40 % of the observed recent 50 - y warming trend.
The modes of natural
internal variability of greatest relevance are the Atlantic modes (AMO, NAO) and the Pacific models (PDO, often referred to as IPO) of
multidecadal climate
variability, with nominal time scales of 60 - 70 + years.
Getting these
multidecadal variations correct in the reconstructions would be very valuable in understanding the modes of natural
internal climate
variability, and to what extent such variations might explain 20th century climate
variability.
While individual papers are cited (e.g Schurr and Hasselman, Min and Hense), there is no evidence that I can see in chapter 9 of a systematic treatment of all the forcing, model, and data uncertainties and also the possibility of strong
multidecadal natural
internal variability.
I'm not sure whether ~ 15 years is a long enough period to conclude that the model projections are seriously out of line with reality, given the existence of not very well quantified decadal and
multidecadal internal variability in the real climate system.
But the observational estimate uncertainty includes measurement and related errors that are not present in the model estimate uncertainty (although these appear to be relatively unimportant in this case), while only the model estimates sample decadal /
multidecadal climate system
internal variability, which very possibly affects the TLC reflection — SST relationship.
Whereas each model demonstrates some sort of
multidecadal variability (which may or may not be of a reasonable amplitude or associated with the appropriate mechanisms), the ensemble averaging process filters out the simulated natural
internal variability since there is no temporal synchronization in the simulated chaotic
internal oscillations among the different ensemble members.
The observed
internal variability so estimated exhibits a pronounced
multidecadal mode with a distinctive spatiotemporal signature, which is altogether absent in model simulations.