The red and grey plumes show the 5 — 95 %
range of model simulations under the different RCP scenarios and 1 % annual CO2 increase scenarios, respectively.
Note that the observations are no longer outside
the range of model simulations.
As can be seen in Figure 2, the observational data (in black) falls within the range of climate model simulations that are run using all forcings (shaded red), but lies outside
the range of model simulations run using only natural forcings (dashed blue lines).
See our previous post on
the range of model simulations for the recent period — which include a significant number that have similar trends to observed, even while they have the same long term trends.
Not exact matches
Further detailed experiments on a wide
range of parameters, theoretical
modelling and numerical
simulation are still needed.
Which suggests the chief application
of Batygin's formalism may not be to
model a wide
range of systems but rather to make
models for a narrow
range of systems far less computationally expensive than N - body
simulations.
The study used
simulations from the Community Earth System
Model (CESM) run at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and examined warming scenarios
ranging from 1.5 degrees Celsius all the way to 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end
of the century.
This
model is just the first
of a full
range of simulations that he hopes researchers will be able to use to develop better drugs and pacemakers.
By using
simulations that were created by running the same
model multiple times, with only tiny differences in the initial starting conditions, the scientists could examine the
range of summertime temperatures we might expect in the future for the «business - as - usual» and reduced - emissions scenarios.
Daily snowfall in a
range of climate
model simulations has recently been made available through the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project — a growing archive of climate modeling output, including snowfall, that modeling centers and researchers around the world contribute to and ana
model simulations has recently been made available through the Coupled
Model Intercomparison Project — a growing archive of climate modeling output, including snowfall, that modeling centers and researchers around the world contribute to and ana
Model Intercomparison Project — a growing archive
of climate
modeling output, including snowfall, that
modeling centers and researchers around the world contribute to and analyze.
FMI has been involved in research project, which evaluated the
simulations of long -
range transport
of BB aerosol by the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS - 5) and four other global aerosol
models over the complete South African - Atlantic region using Cloud - Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) observations to find any distinguishing or common
model biases.
«Despite being very warm, 2014 still leaves the observed warming in the lower part
of the
range of climate
model simulations.»
The black line indicates observed temperature change, while the coloured bands show the combined
range covered by 90 %
of recent
model simulations.
We have observed nucleation droplets in our Langevin
simulations of a two - dimensional
model of martensitic transformations and have determined that the structure
of the nucleating drople... ▽ More Systems with long -
range interactions quenched into a metastable state near the pseudospinodal exhibit nucleation that is qualitatively different than the classical nucleation observed near the coexistence curve.
As an application
of our method, we examine thermal phase mixing in the context
of Ginzburg - Landau
models with short -
range interac... ▽ More We show how to achieve lattice - spacing independent results in numerical
simulations of finite - temperature stochastic scalar field theories.
To provide guidance for future high - resolution
simulations, Dai et al. used a computationally cheaper, two - dimensional chemical transport
model to systematically estimate the effects
of injecting sulfur dioxide and sulfate aerosols at a
range of altitudes, latitudes, and time frames for 62 separate scenarios.
The
models include a new wind braking law based on recent numerical
simulations of magnetized stellar winds and specific dynamo and mass - loss prescriptions a... ▽ More We present new
models for the rotational evolution
of solar - like stars between 1 Myr and 10 Gyr with the aim to reproduce the distributions
of rotational periods observed for star forming regions and young open clusters within this age
range.
A large ensemble
of Earth system
model simulations, constrained by geological and historical observations
of past climate change, demonstrates our self ‐ adjusting mitigation approach for a
range of climate stabilization targets
ranging from 1.5 to 4.5 °C, and generates AMP scenarios up to year 2300 for surface warming, carbon emissions, atmospheric CO2, global mean sea level, and surface ocean acidification.
We use the full
range of tools available to modern biology, from ecological field surveys and experiments to population genomics, mathematical
modeling, and computer
simulations.
Our long - term
simulation model provides critical insight into how much income replacement we can expect our glide path to deliver across a full
range of interest rate environments a participant could face at retirement.
There are limitations in using a Monte Carlo
simulation, including the analysis is only as good as the assumptions, and despite
modeling for a
range of uncertainties in the future, it does not eliminate uncertainty.
Lured and attuned to the simulative properties and potentials
of a rather curious
range of materials and mechanical processes, Lefcourt creates works — call them objects, call them items, call them paintings — that leave viewers questioning how much deeper or more detailed their envisioned origins might run, how much further their eventually depicted apertures might open, how many more machines and manual «
modelings» could be incorporated into the artist's procedures
of representation and
simulation.
The fact that a wide
range of different
models (including ours) give a reasonably good
simulation of the past millennium with this forcing was already shown in the IPCC AR4, see Figs. 6.13 and 6.14.
BVP
simulations do not have such a dependence and have stable statistics regardless
of how they are initialised (at least for IC perturbations within the
range of actual observations and for the class
of model that was used for AR4).
In any specific
model, the
range of short term trends in the ensemble is quite closely related to their
simulation of ENSO - like behaviour.
Ricarda Winkelmann et al.
modeled the response
of the Antarctic ice sheet to a wide
range of future carbon emissions scenarios over the long - term (previous
simulations have mainly looked at changes that might occur on a shorter timescale).
Using the business - as - usual scenario for GHG radiative forcing (RCP8.5) and their novel estimate
of Earth's warm - phase climate sensitivity the authors find that the resulting warming during the 21st century overlaps with the upper
range of the Coupled
Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) climate
simulations.
So the two estimates (with and without solar forcing) give me a
range of 0.7 C to 1.4 C for the 2xCO2 climate sensitivity, based on actually observed CO2 and temperature records, rather than
model simulations and assumptions.
Also referred to as synthetic scenarios (IPCC, 1994), they are commonly applied to study the sensitivity
of an exposure unit to a wide
range of variations in climate, often according to a qualitative interpretation
of projections
of future regional climate from climate
model simulations (guided sensitivity analysis, see IPCC - TGCIA, 1999).
«The 10
model simulations (a total
of 700 years
of simulation) possess 17 non-overlapping decades with trends in ENSO - adjusted global mean temperature within the uncertainty
range of the observed 1999 - 2008 trend -LRB--0.05 to +0.05 C per decade).»
A much larger
range of forcing combinations and climate
model simulations has been analysed in detection studies than was available for the TAR (Supplementary Material, Table S9.1).
They represent how parameter magnitudes varied across their uncertainty
ranges affect the temperature
simulations of the HadCM3L
model itself.
Interestingly, though climate
models have differing values for u, it remains almost time - invariant for a wide
range of twenty - first century climate transient warming scenarios, while varying in
simulations of the twentieth century.
This is due in part to the difficulties
of evaluating runoff
simulations across a
range of climate
models due to variations in rainfall, snowmelt and net radiation.
It is still the case that observations are more - or-less in the middle
of the
model simulations, but it can now be seen that the
range of simulated values for absolute global average temperature is pretty large (~ 2.5 C).
However, the wide
range and finite number
of simulation outputs render
modeled relationships between temperature and Antarctic sea - level contribution locally nonmonotonic.
Further estimates
of internal variability can be produced from long control
simulations with climate
models... Expert judgments or multi-model techniques may be used to incorporate as far as possible the
range of variability in climate
models and to assign uncertainty levels, confidence in which will need to be assessed.»
Well the take away message seems that given the large
range of paleoclimate reconstructions, you can cherry pick them to agree ok with your
model simulations.
IPCC relied on climate
models (CMIP5), the hypotheses under test if you will, to exclude natural variability: «Observed Global Mean Surface Temperature anomalies... lie well outside the
range of Global Mean Surface Temperature anomalies in CMIP5
simulations with natural forcing only, but are consistent with the ensemble
of CMIP5
simulations including both anthropogenic and natural forcing...» (Ref.: Working Group I contribution to fifth assessment report by IPCC.
It is found that the ability
of the CanESM2
simulation to capture snow - related climate parameters, such as cold - region temperature and precipitation, lies within the
range of currently available international
models.
If the distance
of future
simulations from the established
range of model validity is small, it reasonable to extend established confidence in the
model to the perturbed future state.
> A major advance
of this assessment
of climate change projections compared with the TAR is the large number
of simulations available from a broader
range of models.
Estimates from proxy data1 (for example, based on sediment records) are shown in red (1800 - 1890, pink band shows uncertainty), tide gauge data in blue for 1880 - 2009,2 and satellite observations are shown in green from 1993 to 2012.3 The future scenarios
range from 0.66 feet to 6.6 feet in 2100.4 These scenarios are not based on climate
model simulations, but rather reflect the
range of possible scenarios based on other kinds
of scientific studies.
Using a fire
simulation model, Cochrane et al. [60] found that landscape - scale mechanical thinning that preceded actual wildfires could have reduced the average size
of six wildfires in ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests in California and the southwestern United States by an average
of 18 % (
range 0.3 to 65 %).
Because the
models are not deterministic, multiple
simulations are needed to compare with observations, and the number
of simulations conducted by
modeling centers are insufficient to create a pdf with a robust mean; hence bounding box approaches (assessing whether the
range of the ensembles bounds the observations) are arguably a better way to establish empirical adequacy.
A unified treatment
of weather and climate
models (i.e. the same dynamical cores for the atmosphere and ocean are used for
models across the
range of time scales) transfers confidence from the weather and seasonal climate forecast
models to the climate
models used in century scale
simulations.
Using a
simulation model, Brown and Fogel [40] found that thinning approximately 9,300 ha (23,000 acres)
of ponderosa pine per year over a 10 - year period produced increases in runoff that
ranged from 0.28 to 11.8 million m3 / year (230 — 9,600 acre - feet / year).
Research addressing this question relies on global climate
model simulations based on a
range of anticipated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions scenarios.
Using three
model simulations together, their estimated median TCR is 2.1 °C at the time
of CO2 doubling (based on a 1 % yr — 1 increase in CO2), with a 5 to 95 %
range of 1.5 °C to 2.8 °C.
In this way, we can obtain the expected
range of projected climate trends using the interannual statistics
of the observed NAO record in combination with the
model's radiatively - forced response (given by the ensemble - mean
of the 40
simulations).