I co-edited and contributed to the 2003 American Geophysical Union Monograph: The North Atlantic Oscillation: significance and environmental impact and was one of the authors of the 1995 National Academies
report on Climate Variability on Decade - to - Century Time Scales.
Not exact matches
The most recent
report from the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change reiterated that we must prepare for climate variability rather than for any particular
Climate Change reiterated that we must prepare for
climate variability rather than for any particular
climate variability rather than for any particular threat.
The knowledge gap may just have narrowed, however, with the publication of a new study in Nature (one of two we're
reporting on this week, as it happens) that appears to move the explanation for one type of
climate variability from the natural to the human camp.
On March 12, 2008 the US government quietly released a report, Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Transportation and Infrastructure — Gulf Coast Stud
On March 12, 2008 the US government quietly released a
report, Impacts of
Climate Variability and Change
on Transportation and Infrastructure — Gulf Coast Stud
on Transportation and Infrastructure — Gulf Coast Study.
This summary
report is a distillation of those technical documents and is intended to assist policy makers in understanding the projected impacts (and uncertainties) associated with
climate variability and change
on streamflow in selected BC watersheds.
The Effects of Solar
Variability on Earth's
Climate: A Workshop
Report.
This analytical
report covers the first decade of the 21st century and aims at providing a decadal perspective of
climate variability and change and its observed impacts
on different sectors.
The graph appears in the IPCC 2001
report's Summary for Policymakers, Technical Summary, and chapter 2
on Observed
Climate Variability and Change.
J. T. Fasullo, R. S. Nerem & B. Hamlington Scientific
Reports 6, Article number: 31245 (2016) doi: 10.1038 / srep31245 Download Citation
Climate and Earth system modellingProjection and prediction Received: 13 April 2016 Accepted: 15 July 2016 Published online: 10 August 2016 Erratum: 10 November 2016 Updated online 10 November 2016 Abstract Global mean sea level rise estimated from satellite altimetry provides a strong constraint on climate variability and change and is expected to accelerate as the rates of both ocean warming and cryospheric mass loss increase ove
Climate and Earth system modellingProjection and prediction Received: 13 April 2016 Accepted: 15 July 2016 Published online: 10 August 2016 Erratum: 10 November 2016 Updated online 10 November 2016 Abstract Global mean sea level rise estimated from satellite altimetry provides a strong constraint
on climate variability and change and is expected to accelerate as the rates of both ocean warming and cryospheric mass loss increase ove
climate variability and change and is expected to accelerate as the rates of both ocean warming and cryospheric mass loss increase over time.
This analytical
report aims to contribute to a quantitative and qualitative assessment of
climate risk impacts (including
climate variability, change, and extremes)
on food security and livelihoods in Ethiopia.
Selected research papers,
reports, and other resources which show the current state - of - knowledge
on the
variability of
climate and hydrology in the Colorado River Basin.
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.
Mann was a Lead Author
on the Observed
Climate Variability and Change chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment
Report in 2001 and organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science in 2003.
This study evaluates the tropical intraseasonal
variability, especially the fidelity of Madden - Julian oscillation (MJO) simulations, in 14 coupled general circulation models (GCMs) participating in the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment
Report (AR4).
«The CCR - II
report correctly explains that most of the
reports on global warming and its impacts
on sea - level rise, ice melts, glacial retreats, impact
on crop production, extreme weather events, rainfall changes, etc. have not properly considered factors such as physical impacts of human activities, natural
variability in
climate, lopsided models used in the prediction of production estimates, etc..
-- «The 2012
report on extreme events by the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change examined the evidence for regional changes in soil moisture since 1950, and made the following assessment for western North America: «No overall or slight decrease in dryness since 1950; large
variability; large drought of the 1930s dominates.»
«The authors write that North Pacific Decadal
Variability (NPDV) «is a key component in predictability studies of both regional and global
climate change,»... they emphasize that given the links between both the PDO and the NPGO with global
climate, the accurate characterization and the degree of predictability of these two modes in coupled
climate models is an important «open question in
climate dynamics» that needs to be addressed...
report that model - derived «temporal and spatial statistics of the North Pacific Ocean modes exhibit significant discrepancies from observations in their twentieth - century
climate... conclude that «for implications
on future
climate change, the coupled
climate models show no consensus
on projected future changes in frequency of either the first or second leading pattern of North Pacific SST anomalies,» and they say that «the lack of a consensus in changes in either mode also affects confidence in projected changes in the overlying atmospheric circulation.»»
Examination of space - based bulk atmospheric temperatures used in
climate research The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report 5 (IPCC AR5, 2013) discussed bulk atmospheric temperatures as indicators of climate variability and
climate research The Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change Assessment Report 5 (IPCC AR5, 2013) discussed bulk atmospheric temperatures as indicators of climate variability and
Climate Change Assessment
Report 5 (IPCC AR5, 2013) discussed bulk atmospheric temperatures as indicators of
climate variability and
climate variability and change.
«An examination of the fossil record indicates that the key junctures in hominin evolution
reported nowadays at 2.6, 1.8 and 1 Ma coincide with 400 kyr eccentricity maxima, which suggests that periods with enhanced speciation and extinction events coincided with periods of maximum
climate variability on high moisture levels.»
Antarctic
climate models fail to handle natural
variability: Adélie penguins continue to appear By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated / edited by P. Gosselin)
On June 29, 2016 the University of Delaware (UD) unleashed a
climate penguin panic with its press release: Penguins and
climate change: UD scientists
report projected response of -LSB-...]
«The last
report from the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) indicated that the El Niño Phenomenon's
variability will prevail in Central America, so the country must prepare itself to fight the El Niño Phenomenon Southern Oscillation (ENOS), since the IPCC states that what just happened in Guanacaste will keep happening but more severely,», explained Corrales.
See for example these National Research Council
reports: «Natural
Climate Variability on Decade - to - Century Timescales (NAP, 1995)» and «Decade - to - Century - Scale
Climate Variability and Change (NAP, 1998).
The National Academy of Sciences put the importance of attribution very succinctly way back in 1998, in their
report titled «Natural
Climate Variability on Decade - to - Century Timescales (NAP, 1995).
A summary of key passages from the IPCC 2007 Fourth Assessment
Report and recent CCSP
reports on Weather and
Climate Extremes, Impacts of
Climate Variability and Change
on Gulf Coast Transportation Systems and Infrastructure, and Effects of
Climate Change
on... Continue reading →
See the 2012 NRC
report The Effects of Solar
Variability on Earth's
Climate: The modulation of stratospheric temperatures [by UV] is clear from observations.
Whereas the
reports of the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) warn of a dangerous human effect on climate, NIPCC concludes the human effect is likely to be small relative to natural variability, and whatever small warming is likely to occur will produce benefits as well as
Climate Change (IPCC) warn of a dangerous human effect
on climate, NIPCC concludes the human effect is likely to be small relative to natural variability, and whatever small warming is likely to occur will produce benefits as well as
climate, NIPCC concludes the human effect is likely to be small relative to natural
variability, and whatever small warming is likely to occur will produce benefits as well as costs.
The IPCC Fourth Assessment and the recent National Research Council
report on climate choices agree that there is no substantive scientific evidence that solar
variability is the cause of
climate change in the last 50 years.
Koster et al. (2004, 2006) and Guo et al. (2006)
report on a new model intercomparison activity, the Global Land Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE), which compares among
climate models differences in precipitation
variability caused by interaction with soil moisture.
All this talk of natural
variability follows a decade of no warming, and subsequent to a variety of claims that we have been about to experience warmer and warmer weather, which have been contradicted later by revised projections, and
climate reality, as we
reported on Monday.
This activity
report summarizes the main outcomes of the inter-regional workshop
on the Human Health Impacts from
Climate Variability and
Climate Change in the Hindu Kush - Himalaya Region (India 2005).
This analytical
report summarises the workshop
Climate Variability and Change and their Health Effects
on Small Island States.
This activity
report summarises the Workshop
on Climate Variability and Change and their Health Effects in Pacific Island Countries, conducted in Apia, Samoa, from 25 to 28 July 2000.
Murdock, T.Q., J. Fraser and C. Pearce (editors), 2007: Preliminary analysis of
climate variability and change in the Canadian Columbia River Basin: Focus on water resources, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium report,
climate variability and change in the Canadian Columbia River Basin: Focus
on water resources, Pacific
Climate Impacts Consortium report,
Climate Impacts Consortium
report, 57 pp.
This activity
report documents the outcomes of the Synthesis Workshop
on Climate Variability,
Climate Change and Health in Small - island States, Maldives, 1 - 4 December 2003.
DelSole et al. (28) also found 2.5 cycles by extracting the spatial pattern in the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, Fourth Assessment
Report (IPCC AR4)(29) model control runs that best characterizes internal
variability and by projecting the observed global data onto this pattern.
It is also responsible for the official
reporting of observed
climate variability and change in Australia and
on collaboration with international agencies.
A recently published paper in Scientific
Reports has found that
climate variability in the form of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has had a significant impact
on the occurrence of disease outbreaks in Europe over the past fifty years.
Craig Idso and S. Fred Singer, Solar
Variability &
Climate Models,
Climate Change Reconsidered: 2009
Report of the Nongovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (NIPCC), Ch 5, Chicago, IL: The Heartland Institute, 2009.
This section focuses
on the relationship of runoff, lake levels, groundwater, floods and droughts, and water quality, with observed
climate variability,
climate trends, and land - use and land - cover changes
reported since the TAR.
This
report summarizes the presentations and discussions from a September 2015 workshop convened to examine
variability in Earth's
climate on decadal timescales.