Here's a link which shows
recent model output.
Not exact matches
While the study conducts a sensitivity analysis that includes one scenario with higher levels of production subsidies, the fact that the
model's
outputs seem to barely register a tripling of production subsidies raises some questions, especially in light of the findings of the other
recent U.S. study led by the Stockholm Environment Institute and EarthTrack described above.
For the earlier generation of
models, results are based on the archived
output from control runs (specifically, the first 30 years, in the case of temperature, and the first 20 years for the other fields), and for the
recent generation
models, results are based on the 20th - century simulations with climatological periods selected to correspond with observations.
The current delivery
model that has been in place essentially unaltered for over eighty years is flawed because, in spite of all the good work done on standards and accountability in
recent years, the system remains primarily «input» and compliance driven rather than «
output» and performance driven.
We have many studies presenting the projections from GCMs under various forcing scenarios where unforced variability is simulated, and we have a few studies (not many I think) which have a
model reproduce the * actual * forcings and unforced variability and see how well the
output matches observations (a
recent one by Yu Kosaka and Shang - Ping Xie being a case in point).
These experiments indicate that
models can not reproduce the rapid warming observed in
recent decades when they only take into account variations in solar
output and volcanic activity.
If I am reading the
output of the ensemble
models correctly, none of them suggest the possibility of the
recent low ice events.
[4] This can be done most straightforwardly by only considering the 14
modelling groups that contributed
output from both their earlier and more
recent models.
A
recent meta - analysis published in the journal Nature Climate Change, by Challinor et al. (2014) examines 1,722 crop
model simulations, run using global climate
model output under several emissions scenarios, to evaluate the potential effects of climate change and adaptation on crop yield.
You may have missed his
recent posting about this topic: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/21/model-climate-sensitivity-calculated-directly-from-model-results/#more-86761 It is actually amazing that the global temperature result of climate
models can be replicated with forcing inputs manipulated by his trivial formula, resulting in an almost identical
output (r value of about 0.99).
At the same time, the report indicates that
recent observations of the climate — as distinct from the
output of complex climate
models — are consistent with «the lower part of the likely range.»
These data have been produced using the leading climate research
models, whose
outputs have informed important scientific assessments of climate change and its impacts, such as the most
recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports and the National Climate Assessment.
In part one, I wrote «In the simplest of terms, every study that has attributed the
recent warming of the 1980s and 90s to rising CO2 has been based on the difference between their
models» reconstruction of «natural climate change» with their
models»
output of «natural climate change plus CO2.»
This obviously has implications for some papers on
recent temperature trends, although the better papers which compare coverage - masked
model outputs against HadCRUT4 are largely unaffected.
The advanced climate
model output clearly misses all the big extremes and wide variations of observed global temperatures, including this El Niño's
recent incredible burst of warming
As I said on another blog, what would be an interesting comparison would be a comparison of data to
output from (e.g.) unmodified AR4 codes run further forward to 2013 (or as
recent as is practicable) using the actual forcings, starting with the exact run states of the
models at the end of the verification period for AR4 (that is the end - point where «known» forcings were used, rather than scenarios).
Their aim at this stage was to reconcile
model output with the
recent climate record.
In any case, it is simply an effort to reconcile the rapid rates of warming in the Arctic with the
output of the most
recent group of global climate
models — everyone agrees that global warming is real, except for a very large number of editors and reporters with the U.S. press, who continue to advocate for the positions held by a small number of fossil fuel funded contrarians and insist on giving them «equal time» — a luxury denied to renewable energy experts.
If you could somehow separate out the micro-climate effects from scatter (e.g. T - storms) using
recent data, could you apply that to the regional - scale
model outputs?