Sentences with phrase «regional climate modelling system»

The warnings, from two studies and the UK's PRECIS regional climate modelling system, are unanimous on one conclusion: the Himalayan region, which includes the two most recent sufferers of devastating flash floods, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand, is receiving more rainfall than ever before and it's only getting worse.
For the purpose, the PRECIS (Providing REgional Climates for Impacts Studies) a regional climate modelling system, of UK Met Office, is used.
The weather@home regional climate modelling system for Australia and New Zealand has been used for a number of different experiments in 2016.

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Better predictions would require improved climate - measurement tools, more sophisticated climate models that work on regional scales, and a better organized system to integrate all the data, the report concludes.
Scientists are involved in the evaluation of global - scale climate models, regional studies of the coupled atmosphere / ocean / ice systems, regional severe weather detection and prediction, measuring the local and global impact of the aerosols and pollutants, detecting lightning from space and the general development of remotely - sensed data bases.
By working on the still - not - fully - cracked nut of estimating changes in hurricane frequency and intensity in a warming climate, Gabe and his colleagues ended up with a modeling system with seasonal skill in regional hurricane prediction.
Within the integrated Earth system science paradigm, our major research thrusts include the physics and chemistry of aerosols, clouds and precipitation; integrating our understanding of climate, energy, and other human and natural systems through the development and application of models that span a wide range of spatial scales; and determining the impacts of and informing responses to climate and other global and regional environmental changes.
These measures of climate turnover substantially improve model fit, indicating that the occurrence of widespread ephemeral deep lakes is a pulsed system influenced both by regional and global changes.
The session explores regional integration of records and dynamic modeling to: (1) understand better the nature of climate - human - ecosystem interactions; (2) quantify the roles of different natural and anthropogenic drivers in forcing environmental change; (3) examine the feedbacks between anthropogenic activity and the natural system and; (4) provide integrated datasets for model development and data - model comparisons.
Rockel, B., C.L. Castro, R.A. Pielke Sr., H. von Storch, and G. Leoncini, 2008: Dynamical downscaling: Assessment of model system dependent retained and added variability for two different regional climate models.
These systems likely contribute to an observed regional trend of increasing extreme rainfall, and poor prediction of them likely contributes to a warm, dry bias in climate models downstream of the Sierras de Córdoba in a key agricultural region.
The Chair of Land - Climate interactions investigates the role of land surface processes in the climate system using global (COSMOS) and regional (COSMO - CLM) climate models, land surface models (CLM, TerraLM), diagnostic estimates, ground and satellite observations, and field measurClimate interactions investigates the role of land surface processes in the climate system using global (COSMOS) and regional (COSMO - CLM) climate models, land surface models (CLM, TerraLM), diagnostic estimates, ground and satellite observations, and field measurclimate system using global (COSMOS) and regional (COSMO - CLM) climate models, land surface models (CLM, TerraLM), diagnostic estimates, ground and satellite observations, and field measurclimate models, land surface models (CLM, TerraLM), diagnostic estimates, ground and satellite observations, and field measurements.
A fully coupled regional climate, 3D lake modeling system is used to investigate the physical mechanisms associated with the multiscale variability of the Lake Victoria basin climate.
This is one of the more challenging aspects of modeling of the climate system because precipitation involves not only large - scale processes that are well - resolved by models but also small - scale process, such as convection, that must be parameterized in the current generation of global and regional climate models.
Other activities include the downscaling of the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) long - range forecasts using regional coupled models, the participation in the preparation of the WMO Climate Watch System (providing a Climate Watch Advisory for South East Europe), and the preparation of the South East European Climate Outlook Forum (SEECOF) and Mediterranean Climate Outlook Forum (MEDCOF) activities.
Farmers, unions, social organizations, indigenous peoples, women and youth (at the national, regional and global level) have come together to demand climate justice and fight against the consumerist and extractivist model that, along with the capitalism and neoliberalism systems of the modern world, is harming Mother Earth.
«The fact that there is a distribution of future climate changes arises not only because of incomplete understanding of the climate system (e.g. the unknown value of the climate sensitivity, different climate model responses, etc.), but also because of the inherent unpredictability of climate (e.g. unknowable future climate forcings and regional differences in the climate system response to a given forcing because of chaos).
There are numerous studies where regional climate model studies have increased our understanding of the mechanism of the climate system acting on a regional scale.
Regional climate models should likewise be considered as «collections of our understanding of the regional climate system».
We have developed the Integrated Climate and Air Quality Modeling System (ICAMS) through the one - way nesting of global — regional models to examine the changes in the surface ozone...
Stenchikov et al. (2006) showed that models have difficulty in capturing the regional response of the climate system (ao) to Volcanic singularities specifically the temperature regime in eurasia in the Giss model, or in retrodiction ie the Krakatoa problem why was it so warm, thus there is no uniqueness theorem for volcanics.
As we continue developing new weather@home applications — regional climate models that look at particular extreme weather events — we will be moving to a policy of picking a single operating system for each, rather than developing all models for all operating systems.
Computer models fail to simulate the magnitude or even the sign of changes of important elements of the climate system, including regional and atmospheric temperatures, precipitation, clouds and winds.
He is a cryosphere scientist investigating snow and ice in Earth's climate system using in - situ observations, remote sensing data and regional climate models.
Following the trend in global modelling, RCMs are increasingly coupled interactively with other components of the climate system, such as regional ocean and sea ice (e.g., Bailey and Lynch 2000; Döscher et al., 2002; Rinke et al., 2003; Bailey et al., 2004; Meier et al., 2004; Sasaki et al., 2006a), hydrology, and with interactive vegetation (Gao and Yu, 1998; Xue et al., 2000).
«Analyze geoscience data and the results from global climate models to make an evidence - based forecast of the current rate of global or regional climate change and associated future impacts to Earth systems.Use a model to describe how variations in the flow of energy into and out of Earth's systems result in changes in climate
Others have talked about what this might look like — regional impacts, measurement quality, reduced funding to GCM modeling (consistent with their strength in testing subsystems rather than forecasting climate), and more empirical work and modeling of those systems that have a large impact on areas of risk.
With the failure of climate models to simulate the pause and regional climate variability, we have arguably reached the point of diminishing returns from this particular path of climate modeling — not just for decision support but also for scientific understanding of the climate system.
Climate models are being used to support emissions reduction policies and as the basis for projection of future regional climate variation for use in model - based decision support sClimate models are being used to support emissions reduction policies and as the basis for projection of future regional climate variation for use in model - based decision support sclimate variation for use in model - based decision support systems.
Current models of climate change include sea level rise, land degradation, regional changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, and some consequences for agriculture, but without modeling the feedbacks that these significant impacts would have on the Human System, such as geographic and economic displacement, forced migration, destruction of infrastructure, increased economic inequality, nutritional sustenance, fertility, mortality, conflicts, and spread of diseases or other human health consequences [135,136].
«Bergen Earth system model (BCM - C): model description and regional climate - carbon cycle feedbacks assessment» (2009) J. F. Tjiputra1, K. Assmann, M. Bentsen, I. Bethke, O. H. Otter, C. Sturm, and C. Heinze.
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