This is where the understanding of
climate modeling uncertainty is lost in the scientific communications to the public by the politicians and vocal advocates that drive climate change discussions.
When agendas such as # 235 do not want to hear
about model uncertainties, I am not surprised; one encounters that a lot these days.
Reducing the grid size to
reduce model uncertainty exponentially increases the computing power required due to the increasing size of the calculation.
[20] This problem becomes particularly severe for forecasts of the weather about 10 days in advance, [21] particularly
if model uncertainty is not accounted for in the forecast.
It is impossible to model all of the various influences at the required detail for high confidence output, therefore the models must be simplified, thereby
introducing model uncertainty.
The use of ensemble modeling framework enabled to
reduce modeling uncertainty and present the local variation of the processes at unprecedented fine spatial resolution.
By scaling spatio - temporal patterns of response up or down, this technique takes account of gross model errors in climate sensitivity and net aerosol forcing but does not fully account for
modelling uncertainty in the patterns of temperature response to uncertain forcings.
I don't believe there are any individual local weather events that can be ascribed to climate change - the baseline / changed distributions (
model uncertainties included) at the scale of weather are broad and overlap, and we don't have a reliable way of estimating probabilities for local weather events.
Hydrologic
modelling uncertainty also affects the prediction skill, and in some cases prediction skill is constrained by hydrologic model skill.
However, underlying parameters and their precise effects are often uncertain, leading to insufficient parameterization and
overall model uncertainty.
In general, these studies have shown that different ways of creating scenarios from the same source (a global - scale climate model) can lead to substantial differences in the estimated effect of climate change, but that
hydrological model uncertainty may be smaller than errors in the modelling procedure or differences in climate scenarios (Jha et al., 2004; Arnell, 2005; Wilby, 2005; Kay et al., 2006a, b).
In her doctoral thesis, Pulkkinen also
discusses model uncertainty (structural uncertainty), which results from the fact that the phenomenon being researched can be explained with several — even contradicting — theories.
Attribution results therefore go
beyond modeling uncertainties and are impacted also on observational uncertainties, and indeed positive attribution can be biased toward well - sampled regions.
Modelling uncertainty currently is such that in some climate models, this amount of freshwater (without any other forcing) would shut down deep water formation, in some it wouldn't.
However, two other studies using frequentist methods that also include
modelling uncertainty find a clear detection of sulphate aerosols, suggesting that the use of multiple models helps to reduce uncertainties and improves detection of a sulphate aerosol effect (Gillett et al., 2002c; Huntingford et al., 2006).
Doblas - Reyes, F.J, A. Weisheimer, M. Déqué, N. Keenlyside, M. MacVean, J. Murphy, P. Rogel, D. Smith and T.N. Palmer, 2009:
Addressing model uncertainty in seasonal and annual dynamical ensemble forecasts.
Publicize accomplishments and demonstrated progress in understanding of critical processes,
characterizing model uncertainty, and improving the fidelity of climate models and their subcomponents.
The ranges of thermal expansion overlap substantially for stabilisation at different levels,
since model uncertainty is dominant; A1B is given here because results are available from more models for this scenario than for other scenarios.
Remove the 11 questionable reconstructions and you're left with a lot
less model uncertainty; I expect that might be reduced further if they used the more appropriate inverse (proxies on temperature) calibration.
A well - known example of
persistent model uncertainty is aerosol radiative forcing of climate, for which the uncertainty range has remained essentially unchanged through all Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment reports since 1995.
Anyway, using Sheldon's non-ARMA (1,1)
noise model the uncertainty is much less so the conclusion is that warming accelerated through the last decade.
Phrases with «model uncertainty»