Impacts of the fall 2007 California wildfires on surface ozone: Integrating local observations
with global model simulations
Not exact matches
Dr Ryan Hossaini of Lancaster University and colleagues use
simulations with a
global chemical transport
model to examine the sensitivity of future stratospheric chlorine and ozone levels to sustained dichloromethane growth.
Simulations with a three - dimensional
global model suggest that the net result of these counteractive processes is a 20 percent overall reduction in total tropospheric O3.
Unfortunately, current
simulation models, which combine
global climate
models with aerosol transport
models, consistently underestimate the amount of these aerosols in the Arctic compared to actual measurements during the spring and winter seasons, making it difficult to accurately assess the impact of these substances on the climate.
FMI has been involved in research project, which evaluated the
simulations of long - range transport of BB aerosol by the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS - 5) and four other
global aerosol
models over the complete South African - Atlantic region using Cloud - Aerosol Lidar
with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) observations to find any distinguishing or common
model biases.
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.
After the field campaign, Fast will perform computer
simulations to help evaluate all of the field campaign data and quantify the uncertainties associated
with using coarse grid
global climate
models to study megacity emissions and to determine the radiative impact of the Mexico City particulates on the local and regional climate.
«Evaluating
Global Streamflow
Simulations by a Physically - based Routing
Model Coupled
with the Community Land
Model.»
GFDL GAMDT (The GFDL
Global Atmospheric Model Development Team), 2004: The new GFDL global atmosphere and land model AM2 - LM2: Evaluation with prescribed SST simula
Global Atmospheric
Model Development Team), 2004: The new GFDL global atmosphere and land model AM2 - LM2: Evaluation with prescribed SST simulat
Model Development Team), 2004: The new GFDL
global atmosphere and land model AM2 - LM2: Evaluation with prescribed SST simula
global atmosphere and land
model AM2 - LM2: Evaluation with prescribed SST simulat
model AM2 - LM2: Evaluation
with prescribed SST
simulations.
The
simulations were produced
with a suite of
global and regional climate
models as part of the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program.
Working
with Tom Chase, a colleague at the institute, the researchers were comparing climate
simulations from the Community Land
Model — part of a select group of
global models used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 climate change report — against observations.
In most future
global warming
simulations with climate
models no meltwater from Greenland is included so far.
With error bars provided, we can use the PIOMAS ice volume time series as a proxy record for reality and compare it against sea - ice
simulations in
global climate
models.
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).
In a recent paper by Bengtsson & Hodges (2006),
simulations with the ECHAM5
Global Climate
Model (GCM) were analysed, but they found no increase in the number of mid-latitude storms world - wide.
For Figure 1,
global mean temperatures are plotted from the HadCRUT4 and GISTEMP products relative to a 1900 - 1940 baseline, together
with global mean temperatures from 81 available
simulations in the CMIP5 archive, also relative to the 1900 - 1940 baseline, where all available ensemble members are taken for each
model.
There are some long
simulations with global climate
models, but I don't know if there have been any studies dedicated to answer your question.
I have the same problem
with the
global temperature
simulations, the most recent measured data (12 years) is not trending as the
models predicted.
Member of the team Alena Kimbrough says, «We've shown ENSO is an important part of the climate system that has influenced
global temperatures and rainfall over the past millennium... Our findings, together
with climate
model simulations, highlight the likelihood that century - scale variations in tropical Pacific climate modes can significantly modulate radiatively forced shifts in
global temperature.»
«The 10
model simulations (a total of 700 years of
simulation) possess 17 non-overlapping decades
with trends in ENSO - adjusted
global mean temperature within the uncertainty range of the observed 1999 - 2008 trend -LRB--0.05 to +0.05 C per decade).»
Anderson, J.L., et al., 2004: The new GFDL
global atmosphere and land
model AM2 / LM2: Evaluation
with prescribed SST
simulations, J. Climate, in press.
Forest 2006, along
with several other climate sensitivity studies, used
simulations by the MIT 2D
model of zonal surface and upper - air temperatures and
global deep - ocean temperature, the upper - air data being least influential.
Using a detailed computer
simulation of
global economic activity and climate processes, they ran the
model 400 times
with possible tweaks.
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).
Changes in tracer distribution in the troposphere and stratosphere are calculated from a control and doubled CO2 climate
simulation run
with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Global Climate Middle Atmosphere
Model.
In the first study, the research team from PNNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory used idealized
global model simulations of the aquaplanet with Model for Prediction Across Scales - Atmosphere (MPAS - A) and Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) to run at low, high and variable resolut
model simulations of the aquaplanet
with Model for Prediction Across Scales - Atmosphere (MPAS - A) and Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) to run at low, high and variable resolut
Model for Prediction Across Scales - Atmosphere (MPAS - A) and Weather Research and Forecasting
Model (WRF) to run at low, high and variable resolut
Model (WRF) to run at low, high and variable resolutions.
I'm puzzled by your assignment of only a 30 percent probability to the proposition that «
Global climate
model simulations that include anthropogenic forcing (greenhouse gases and pollution aerosol) provide better agreement
with historical observations in the second half of the 20th century than do
simulations with only natural forcing (solar and volcanoes).»
Factorial
simulations with multiple
global ecosystem
models suggest that CO2 fertilization effects explain 70 % of the observed greening trend.
Global climate
model simulations that include anthropogenic forcing (greenhouse gases and pollution aerosol) provide better agreement
with historical observations in the second half of the 20th century than do
simulations with only natural forcing (solar and volcanoes).
These reconstructions are highly relevant when comparing ocean data
with model simulations of
global and regional climate change.
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.
The question that is addressed in my post is,
with respect to multi-decadal
model simulations, are
global and / or regional climate
models ready to be used for skillful regional projections by the impacts and policymaker communities?
Within the confines of our work
with RASM and CESM, we will: (i) quantify the added value of using regional
models for downscaling arctic
simulations from
global models, (ii) address the impacts of high resolution, improved process representations and coupling between
model components on predictions at seasonal to decadal time scales, (iii) identify the most important processes essential for inclusion in future high resolution GC / ESMs, e.g. ACME, using CESM as a test bed, and (iv) better quantify the relationship between skill and uncertainty in the Arctic Region for high fidelity
models.
Van Haren et al (2012) also nicely illustrate the dependence of regional skill on lateral boundary conditions:
simulations of (historic) precipitation trends for Europe failed to match the observed trends when lateral boundary conditions were provided from an ensemble of CMIP3
global climate
model simulations, while a much better correspondence
with observations was obtained when reanalyses were used as boundary condition.
The authors investigate how the
global monsoon (GM) precipitation responds to the external and anthropogenic forcing in the last millennium by analyzing a pair of control and forced millennium
simulations with the ECHAM and the
global Hamburg Ocean Primitive Equation (ECHO - G) coupled ocean — atmosphere
model.
This, plus the fact that remarkable close
simulations of the time series are obtained
with a
model consisting of a few nonlinear differential equations suggest the intriguing possibility that there are simple rules governing the complex behavior of
global paleoclimate.»
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.
We compare
global - scale changes in satellite estimates of the temperature of the lower troposphere (TLT)
with model simulations of forced and unforced TLT changes.
Coupled
simulations, using six different
models to determine the ocean biological response to climate warming between the beginning of the industrial revolution and 2050 (Sarmiento et al., 2004), showed
global increases in primary production of 0.7 to 8.1 %, but
with large regional differences, which are described in Chapter 4.
Baseline (i.e., mean 1971 — 1999)
global varies between 461 Pg C and 998 Pg C, and increases
with ΔMLT for all vegetation
models under all 110 climate and CO2 increase scenarios (Fig. 1)(see Materials and Methods and SI Text for details of
simulations).
All data are shown as
global mean temperature anomalies relative to the period 1901 to 1950, as observed (black, Hadley Centre / Climatic Research Unit gridded surface temperature data set (HadCRUT3); Brohan et al., 2006) and, in (a) as obtained from 58
simulations produced by 14
models with both anthropogenic and natural forcings.
This external control is demonstrated by ensembles of
model simulations with identical forcings (whether anthropogenic or natural) whose members exhibit very similar
simulations of
global mean temperature on multi-decadal time scales (e.g., Stott et al., 2000; Broccoli et al., 2003; Meehl et al., 2004).
Figure 2.3: Observed
global average changes (black line),
model simulations using only changes in natural factors (solar and volcanic) in green, and
model simulations with the addition of human - induced emissions (blue).
An estimate of the forced response in
global mean surface temperature, from
simulations of the 20th century
with a
global climate
model, GFDL's CM2.1, (red) and the fit to this evolution
with the simplest one - box
model (black), for two different relaxation times.
To help introduce myself, I'm starting
with a post on a topic that I've been working on recently: the
simulation of tropical cyclones in
global atmospheric
models.
Climate
simulations are consistent in showing that the
global mean warming observed since 1970 can only be reproduced when
models are forced
with combinations of external forcings that include anthropogenic forcings (Figure 9.5).
The simulated
global mean temperature anomalies in (b) are from 19
simulations produced by five
models with natural forcings only.
In Phase II of AeroCom, a large - scale
model intercomparison was performed to document the current state of OA
modeling in the
global troposphere, evaluate the OA
simulations by comparison
with observations, identify weaknesses that still exist in
models, explain the agreements and disagreements between
models and observations, and attempt to identify and analyze potential systematic biases in the
models.
Figure 2.4 (Folland et al., 2001) shows
simulations of
global land - surface air temperature anomalies in
model runs forced
with SST,
with and without bias adjustments to the SST data before 1942.
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).