It is intended to be a portal for the climate modelling community, but also for all the communities interested in
using climate models results.
I happen to know that a major oil company
uses climate models of the deep past to inform their oil drilling operations, for instance.
Then,
by using climate models to project future temperatures, the researchers were able to estimate economic growth over the rest of the century if these historical patterns hold true.
Now the marine heat wave group is working
on using climate models to use their data to predict how this trend will develop during the rest of this century.
The
study uses climate modelling to predict three possible futures - the low, medium and high impact scenarios, which describe the severity of outcomes that could be expected in a changed climate.
Lam and team
used climate models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to examine the economic impacts of climate change on fish stocks and fisheries revenues under two different emissions scenarios: a high - emission scenario, in which the rates at which greenhouse gases are pumped into the Earth's atmosphere continue to rise unchecked, and a low - emission scenario under which ocean warming is kept below two degrees Celsius.
Pinyon jay: flight to nowhere Johnson and his
team used climate models to study the relationship between each target species and the vegetation it uses for food resources, which is affected by shifts in temperature and precipitation.
The climate scientists did
n't use climate models for the study but instead turned to observations, combining two techniques: Kriging and linear regression.
«Today's rare weather events will become commonplace,» said Wehner, a climate scientist in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division and an expert in
using climate models run on supercomputers to study extreme weather events.
Spread of emissions from the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident modelled using climate models
From reading the paragraph, I conclude that prediction of
climate using climate models is similar to prediction of river flood levels using hydrologic models.
We regard it simply as another tool in the armoury of those who develop and those
who use climate models in research and in decision - making.
Trenberth says, and some scientists agree, that attribution studies that
use climate models do not work well for weather events that are local and dynamic — a flash in the pan.
Some work from the beginning of global temperature records in the late 19th century, while
others use climate model simulations that exclude human influences over a more recent period.
Had
Hansen used a climate model with a climate sensitivity of approximately 3.4 °C for 2xCO2 (at least in the short - term, it's likely larger in the long - term due to slow - acting feedbacks), he would have projected the ensuing rate of global surface temperature change accurately.
However, Hansen and
Sato use climate models in a way that their climate sensitivity does not significantly influence their radiative forcing or the global temperature estimates that they use in this study.
Published in the Journal of Climate, authors Richard Seager and Martin Hoerling cleverly
used climate models forced by sea surface temperatures to separate how much of the past century's North American droughts have been caused by ocean temperatures, natural variability, and humans.
An unprecedented experiment So how does this finding negate the suggestion that «unknown unknown» climate factors might influence a warmer world, making it nearly impossible to simulate the
future using climate models?
Using climate models at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, François Forget (CNRS) and Martin Turbet (UPMC) show that, with a cold climate and an atmosphere denser than it is today, ice accumulated at around latitude 25 ° S, in regions corresponding to the sources of now dry river beds.
Simulations
using a climate model showed that several large, closely spaced eruptions could have cooled the Northern Hemisphere enough to spark sea - ice growth and the subsequent feedback loop.
Research using climate models suggests that the combined effects of higher temperatures and lower oxygen will drive many marine animals away from their current habitats to areas with more oxygen, according to in a recent press release...
«Study predicts wildlife of Africa's Albertine Rift will be threatened by climate change: Study
using climate models reveals that nearly 50 percent of mammals, birds, plants and other species found nowhere else on earth will become threatened by 2080.»
GeoMIP uses climate models developed around the world to simulate the effects of solar geoengineering in response to greenhouse gas emissions.
A study published earlier this year and led by
Prestemon used both climate models and projections of societal changes, like population growth and development, to look at how they might impact wildfire projections.