The method is a sea ice - ocean
model ensemble run (without and with assimilation of sea - ice / ocean observations); the coupled ice - ocean model NAOSIM has been forced with atmospheric surface data from January 1948 to 7 July 2015.
Kauker et al, 4.5, + / - 0.4, Model Sea ice - ocean
model ensemble run - For a more detailed description we refer to our July report.
Not exact matches
In addition to
running the
models at the highest resolution possible to obtain the most accurate forecasts, scientists also conduct something called
ensemble models, which allow them to determine the accuracy and consistency of their prediction.
An adequately - large
ensemble of
model runs would provide a distribution of possible severities of an extreme event in control
runs and those forced with prescribed carbon emissions.
During her 22 years in the classroom, Michelle co-founded the
Ensemble Theatre Company of Marin, a sequential arts education
model where students
ran a repertory theatre at three high school sites.
(2) What proportion of
model runs from a multi-
model ensemble produce global mean temperatures at or below (on average) the actual measurement for the last 10 years?
Re # 7 — If you go through the cp.net paper in the link above, you would find that the value (not «more valuable») in the thousands of
runs is in exploring the parameter space, and finding out that high - sensitivity
models aren't just a «one - off» that you can happily throw out when you do an
ensemble of 5 to 50 or whatever.
I have linearly extended the
ensemble mean
model values for the post 2003 period (using a regression from 1993 - 2002) to get a rough sense of where those
runs might have gone.
What deniers want to do is skip all that, misrepresent the
models by claiming they predict steady warming (conflate multi-
model ensemble means with individual
model runs), and conclude the physics is wrong and CO2 causes less warming.
My understanding is that GCMs are
run several times with known forcings (as far as we can determine them) but random natural variability (e.g. ENSO), so the end result is an «
ensemble» of
model runs characterised by mean, standard deviation etc. rather than following precisely the year - to - year variations of global temperature.
The A1B simulation is just the results from (I think) a 3 member
ensemble of the ECHAM5
model run as you suggest.
Also, about 2/3 of the individual
ensemble - members (46 out of 68) from all the
model runs have linear trends that indicate at least a nominal weakening — this is significantly different from what one would be expected from a Binomial distribution with a 50 % probability.
The argument at its simplest is that since there are individual
model runs in the CCSM4
ensemble that are just about as bad as our current reality, we can't rule out the chance that reality will return to the CCSM4
ensemble line — i.e. the decline will slow, and the Arctic will be summer ice - free in «only» 2040 - 2050 or so.
Some of the
models also involve
ensemble calculations, and again it may be instructive for the climate modellers to describe something about the use of these, especially as the public has been involved in some
ensemble calculations being
run on their pc's at home.
Among our two biggest concerns are (a) the realism of the control -
run variability in our
model and the AR4
ensemble, and (b) the quality and spatial representativeness of the pre-1900 obs.
By
running the
model thousands of times (a «large
ensemble») we hope to find out how the
model responds to slight tweaks to these approximations — slight enough to not make the approximations any less realistic.
Instead modelers use Monte Carlo methods in which the same deterministic
model is
run many times with slightly different starting conditions (a
model ensemble).
Barthélemy et al., 5.0 (range from 4.1 to 5.5),
Modeling Our estimate is based on results from
ensemble runs with the global ocean - sea ice coupled
model NEMO - LIM3.
We used an
ensemble of ice sheet
model runs and plausible Earth
models to place bounded constraints on our mass change estimate.
I would really like some clarity as to how the
ensemble of
model runs are whittled down into a narrower subset without comprimising the ability of the
model to «span the full range» of «weather noise».
Since November 2014 the
ensemble forecasts have been
run with 0.25 degree horizontal resolution with the sea ice
model active.
The throughput is equivalent to having about 20 single - processor experiments
running continuously throughout the time, highlighting the power of the Grid to enable
ensemble studies with Earth system
models.
Unlike the ENSO and IOD SST forecasts, the seasonal outlooks are based on the last three weeks of forecasts, i.e. five separate
model runs combining to make a 165 - member
ensemble, as this was shown to give higher skill.
The «
ensemble» methodology currently in use is to use a single
run from a diversity of
models, graph these and take a mean.
First, instead of using an
ensemble of
models to calculate the 66th percentile of
runs that result in 1.5 C warming, they use a range of possible climate sensitivity values that ends up providing a more conservative estimate of what it would take to exceed 1.5 C.
These authors ignore that there are major deficiencies in the GCM
model runs (and thus in the
ensemble) which I provided examples of in my guest post.
An argument can certainly be made that they need to conduct an ongoing verification (say every 5 years) of all of the
model versions, including a sufficient number of
ensemble runs for each
model version.
[16] Lorenz P, Jacob D (2010) Validation of temperature trends in the
ENSEMBLES regional climate
model runs driven by ERA40.
When
ensemble spread is small and the forecast solutions are consistent within multiple
model runs, forecasters perceive more confidence in the forecast in general.
There are various ways of viewing the data such as spaghetti plots,
ensemble means or Postage Stamps where a number of different results from the
models run can be compared.
The pan-arctic
ensemble runs with a coupled ice - ocean
model by Kauker et al. also indicate a distinct ice thickness anomaly in the East Siberian Sea, where thicknesses at the end of June 2010 are shown to be higher by a factor of roughly two as compared to the previous three years.
It costs little to field the observations — the satellites and the radars, the surface in situinstruments, etc. to monitor conditions and their changes; to assimilate the data into variety of numerical
models, to
run these and form
ensemble averages; to disseminate the findings.
Additionally, multi-member
ensemble integrations have been
run with single
models with the same forcing.
Over a twenty year period, you would be on stronger ground in arguing that a negative trend would be outside the 95 % confidence limits of the expected trend (the one
model run in the above
ensemble suggests that would only happen ~ 2 % of the time).
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.
The use of single
runs of multiple
models is known as an opportunistic
ensemble.
And regardless, even if you look at just the spaghetti monster graph it is quite clear that we are
running completely on the cool side of the
model ensemble and to increase confidence we need better
models (current best guess is they should be less sensitive and less attributive, to say the least).
I understand that they
run an
ensemble of simulations, but as the ice gets thinner with time, there are going to be events that the
model does not take into account for the near - term.
They
ran an
ensemble of simulations with a climate
model of intermediate complexity to evaluate the causes of past climate changes.
Barthélemy et al, 5.1 (4.5 - 5.6),
Modeling Our estimate is based on results from
ensemble runs with the global ocean - sea ice coupled
model Nucleus for European Modeling of the Ocean Louvain - la - Neuve Sea Ice Model (NEMO - L
model Nucleus for European
Modeling of the Ocean Louvain - la - Neuve Sea Ice
Model (NEMO - L
Model (NEMO - LIM3).
Two groups (Kauker, et al., and Zhang)
ran sea ice
models with an
ensemble (many years) of summer weather conditions from previous years.
Our estimate is based on results from
ensemble runs with the global ocean - sea ice coupled
model NEMO - LIM3.
Application of paleo - data - constraints to this strongly constrained
ensemble (123 out of 1,000
model runs) results in even fewer paleo - consistent
model realizations.
(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.)
An adequately - large
ensemble of
model runs would provide a distribution of possible severities of an extreme event in control
runs and those forced with prescribed carbon emissions.
Don't they give away the game when they use «
ensembles» of
model runs to get the best fit for hindcasting?
And that this is reflected in individual
model runs but as the timing of events such as El Nino / La Nina, volcanic eruptions etc. is unpredictable when projections are made based on
ensemble runs then they will tend to average out and the projection will show a fairly steady trend.
As
running simulation
ensembles across systematically designed
model families would require billions of dollars and thousands times more computing power — we simply decide subjectively what a plausible solution looks like after the fact.
There are mathematical fatal flaws in all the
models that can not be overcome even if supercomputers improve by an order of magnitude, and if Rob Ellisons nonlinear dynamic chaos concerns can be overcome by enough
ensemble runs to discern their main climate strange attractors.
Using data from the KNMI data explorer website the
model ensemble mean of the CMIP3 +
runs for the 20th century, the trend is 0.05 C / decade.