The Carnegie team will
use global atmospheric models, partly enabled by the Carnegie Institution's new high - performance computing cluster, to simulate how short - lived pollutants from different sectors and different countries get transported through the atmosphere and the distribution and strength of their climate and air quality effects.
Not exact matches
They
used this data compilation to evaluate the quality of their regional
atmospheric climate
model, based on
global climate projections that included several scenarios of anticipated climate change.
The
global climate
models assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which are
used to project
global and regional climate change, are coarse resolution
models based on a roughly 100 - kilometer or 62 - mile grid, to simulate ocean and
atmospheric dynamics.
Columbia University physicist Peter Eisenberger created an effective
model that proves, through real world testing, that carbon sequestration can be
used on a
global scale and can prevent the
atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide from ever exceeding 450 ppm, below dangerous levels.
They
used the Community Earth System
Model, funded primarily by the Department of Energy and NSF, to simulate
global climate as well as
atmospheric chemistry conditions.
Model simulations of 20th century
global warming typically
use actual observed amounts of
atmospheric carbon dioxide, together with other human (for example chloroflorocarbons or CFCs) and natural (solar brightness variations, volcanic eruptions,...) climate - forcing factors.
Because small - scale climate features, such as clouds and
atmospheric aerosol particles, have a large impact on
global climate, it's important to improve the methods
used to represent those climate features in the
models.
Find out how researchers are
using data from U.S. Department of Energy's
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility — the world's most comprehensive outdoor laboratory and data archive for research related to
atmospheric processes that affect Earth's climate — to improving regional and
global climate
models.
In sensitivity experiments the influence of removed orography of Greenland on the Arctic flow patterns and cyclone tracks during winter have been determined
using a
global coupled
model and a dynamical downscaling with the regional
atmospheric model HIRHAM.
Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant
use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate
model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and
global sea level, and even a bit of work in
atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).
The approximately 20 - year lag (between
atmospheric CO2 concentration change and reaching equilibrium temperature) is an emerging property (just like sensitivity) of the
global climate system in the GCM
models used in the paper I linked to above, if I understood it correctly.
This hindcast
uses two time - varying inputs: 10 - meter wind vectors from the
atmospheric model NAVGEM (Navy Global Environmental Model, Hogan et al. 2014) run at the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC), and analyses of ice concentrations (also produced at FNMOC) from passive microwave radiometer data (SSM
model NAVGEM (Navy
Global Environmental
Model, Hogan et al. 2014) run at the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC), and analyses of ice concentrations (also produced at FNMOC) from passive microwave radiometer data (SSM
Model, Hogan et al. 2014) run at the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC), and analyses of ice concentrations (also produced at FNMOC) from passive microwave radiometer data (SSM / I).
This result suggests that current projections of regional climate change may be questionable.This finding is also highly relevant to regional climate
modelling studies where lower resolution
global atmospheric models are often
used as the driving
model for high resolution regional
models.
As shown in Figure 2, the IPCC FAR ran simulations
using models with climate sensitivities (the total amount of
global surface warming in response to a doubling of
atmospheric CO2, including amplifying and dampening feedbacks) correspoding to 1.5 °C (low), 2.5 °C (best), and 4.5 °C (high).
Value - added products (VAPs) are higher - order data products that have been analyzed and processed to ease scientist's
use of ARM data in
atmospheric research and
global climate
models.
These data are
used to research
atmospheric radiation balance, cloud feedback processes, and to initialize and evaluate
model performance, which are critical to the understanding of
global climate change.
Using variable resolution
global models, their analyses will take into account the sensitivity of water cycle processes such as
atmospheric rivers and monsoons to
model resolution.
Emissions of other short - lived gases (CO, NOx, NMVOCs, and CH4) also needed to be mapped to a
global grid for
use in
atmospheric chemistry
models.
The Earth's response to changes in
atmospheric CO2 is studied
using what are known as
global climate
models (GCMs), which run on supercomputers.
Metzger et al. (NRL Stennis Space Center), 5.0 (3.4 - 6.0),
Modeling The
Global Ocean Forecast System (GOFS) 3.1 was run in forecast mode without data assimilation, initialized with July 1, 2015 ice / ocean analyses, for ten simulations
using National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR)
atmospheric forcing fields from 2005 - 2014.
Radiative transfer codes that accurately calculate the radiative impact of greenhouse gases and other
atmospheric constituents are an essential component of the
global climate
models used to simulate present and future climate.
Here seven GVMs are
used to investigate possible responses of
global natural terrestrial vegetation to a major new set of future climate and
atmospheric CO2 projections generated as part of the fifth phase of the Coupled
Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5)(6), the primary climate
modeling contribution to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment.
Second,
using measured
atmospheric CO2 concentrations short circuits two layers of
modeling which themselves are major sources of uncertainty, namely, estimating
global emissions and, then, estimating the
atmospheric CO2 concentrations (based on complex
models of the
global carbon cycle).
The main goal of this program is to determine the
global distribution of carbon dioxide and other trace
atmospheric gases by sampling at various altitudes and latitudes in the Pacific Basin, counting the molecules and
using the data to test mathematical
models» predictions.
Zhang and Delworth and Zhang et al. showed by
using models that, as the northward surface heat transport by the AMOC is increased, the
global atmospheric heat transport decreases in compensation (and vice versa), providing a multidecadal component to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).
The IPCC FAR ran simulations
using models with climate sensitivities (the total amount of
global surface warming in response to a doubling of
atmospheric CO2, including amplifying and dampening feedbacks) of 1.5 °C (low), 2.5 °C (best), and 4.5 °C (high) for doubled CO2 (Figure 1).
NRL - ocn - ice, 5.2 (4.3 - 6.0),
Modeling (ice - ocean) The
Global Ocean Forecast System (GOFS) 3.1 was run in forecast mode without data assimilation, initialized with June 1, 2016 ice / ocean analyses, for ten simulations
using National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR)
atmospheric forcing fields from 2005 - 2014.
«Our climate simulations,
using a simplified three - dimensional climate
model to solve the fundamental equations for conservation of water,
atmospheric mass, energy, momentum and the ideal gas law, but stripped to basic radiative, convective and dynamical processes, finds upturns in climate sensitivity at the same forcings as found with a more complex
global climate
model»
Similarly, such
global models can be
used to help define
global surface temperature for specified
atmospheric composition and surface properties such as sea surface temperature.»
By
using an idealized heating to force a comprehensive
atmospheric model, the large negative anomalous latent heating associated with the observed deficit in central tropical Pacific rainfall is shown to be mainly responsible for the
global quasi-stationary waves in the upper troposphere.
The authors developed scenarios of
global CO2 emissions from existing infrastructure directly emitting CO2 to the atmosphere for the period 2010 to 2060 (with emissions approaching zero at the end of this time period) and
used the University of Victoria Earth System Climate
Model to project the resulting changes in
atmospheric CO2 and
global mean temperature.
The most commonly
used method for representing lightning in
global atmospheric models generally predicts lightning increases in a warmer world.
The CSALT
model uses atmospheric pressure to estimate natural variability in the
global temperature signal.
Our climate simulations,
using a simplified three - dimensional climate
model to solve the fundamental equations for conservation of water,
atmospheric mass, energy, momentum and the ideal gas law, but stripped to basic radiative, convective and dynamical processes, finds upturns in climate sensitivity at the same forcings as found with a more complex
global climate
model [66].
We study climate sensitivity and feedback processes in three independent ways: (1) by
using a three dimensional (3 - D)
global climate
model for experiments in which solar irradiance So is increased 2 percent or CO2 is doubled, (2) by
using the CLIMAP climate boundary conditions to analyze the contributions of different physical processes to the cooling of the last ice age (18K years ago), and (3) by
using estimated changes in
global temperature and the abundance of
atmospheric greenhouse gases to deduce an empirical climate sensitivity for the period 1850 - 1980.
With the ever increasing divergence of surface temperatures (NASA GISS) from satellite ones (UAH / RSS), and the subsequent divergence of overheated climate
models (IPCC CMIP5) to observed reality, it is worth some background on the
atmospheric temperature measurement systems
used to measure the temperature of the lower troposphere — the exact place where
global warming theory is meant to occur and be measured:
The second paper, by Hagos et al. (2016) in Geophysical Research Letters
uses output from a
global climate
model to examine changes to
atmospheric river events over western North America, assuming large, business - as - usual anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.
The current generation of
global atmospheric models in
use for climate studies around the world do some things remarkably well, as I've tried to argue in several earlier posts.
For future projections, GFDL
atmospheric modelers have developed
global models capable of simulating many aspects of the seasonal and year - to - year variability of tropical cyclone frequency in a number of basins,
using only historical sea surface temperatures as input.
They also ran
atmospheric models that
used observed
global sea surface temperatures, Arctic sea ice conditions and
atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in 2010 to assess whether such factors might have contributed to the heat wave.
Morcrette, R. Pincus, et al. (July 2008): The Monte Carlo Independent Column Approximation: an assessment
using several
global atmospheric models.
Recent work in
modelling the warm climates of the Early Eocene shows that it is possible to obtain a reasonable
global match between
model surface temperature and proxy reconstructions, but only by
using extremely high
atmospheric CO2 concentrations or more modest CO2 levels complemented by a reduction in
global cloud albedo.
Our 2015 study examines the impact of 21st - century projected climate changes (CMIP5, RCP4.5 scenario) on a number of tropical cyclone metrics,
using the GFDL hurricane
model to downscale storms in all basins from one of the lower resolution
global atmospheric models mentioned above.
Simulations with this
atmospheric forcing are presented from seven
global ocean - ice
models using the CORE - I design (repeating annual cycle of
atmospheric forcing for 500 years).