However, in this particular example, we have a great deal
of weather noise over this short interval, therefore the spread of the runs due to weather is key.
Our analysis captures the impact of
model weather noise on the short - term model surface temperature trends.
(bear in mind a well that there are multiple simulations and that
weather noise causes substantial spread over short periods of time).
I bring this up just to clarify that we are comparing observations with the distribution of all model trends of a particular length, not just those between a specific start and stop date (i.e. we capture the full (or near so) impact of internal model
weather noise on the projected trend magnitudes).
Kleeman, R., Y. Tang, and A.M. Moore, 2003: The calculation of climatically relevant singular vectors in the presence of
weather noise as applied to the ENSO problem.
I think that a more scientifically justifiable statement, at least for the U.S. and extratropical land areas is that
daily weather noise continues to drum out the siren call of climate change on local, weather scales.
These were single realisations, and so don't have an ensemble envelope around them (which is how we would assess the uncertainty due to
weather noise today).
The
simulated weather noise includes the effects of ENSO (El Niño and La Niña), but does not include multi-decadal temperature changes due to natural ocean oscillations or solar - induced natural climate change other than the small changes in the total solar irradiance.
If we
assume weather noise IS AR (1) and has the lag - 1 correlation that gives the variability in 8 year trends Gavin gets, then you can prove the monthly weather data since 2001 is an outlier.
We've seen a good bit of real
inter-month weather noise lately and it is likely to break the world's banks — what's left after the banksters have done their hit and run stuff.
This is useful for short data records (such as those retrieves by satellite) where there is a lot
of weather noise one wouldn't expect the model to capture.
The implication is that over a short period,
the weather noise can mask significant differences in the forced component.
Claiming that the forced climate response must be larger than
the weather noise for climate prediction on all time scales is just silly.
Specifically,
any weather noise over the last 30 years in the troposphere must hold for the surface as well.
They include possible issues with the models (e.g.,
weather noise, climate sensitivity), the observed temperatures (e.g., GISS vs. HadCRUT), the forcings (e.g., observed forcings don't match A1B forcings), or simply that rare events do happen.
Yes, the Arctic warms and cools in consonant with the rest of the globe, but with much local excursions and plenty of
weather noise and cyclical climate perturbations contributing to the overall picture.
As mentioned above, with a single realisation, there is going to be an amount of
weather noise that has nothing to do with the forcings.
It is an initial values problem, and is thus contaminated by large sensitivity to intial conditions (
weather noise).
Using 12 - month averages eliminates the seasonal and
weather noise.
Furthermore, in a subseasonal forecast, some kind of time average (e.g. weekly or pentad mean) is usually used, which removes part of
the weather noise.