Towards predictive understanding of regional climate change

SP Xie, C Deser, GA Vecchi, M Collins… - Nature Climate …, 2015 - nature.com
Regional information on climate change is urgently needed but often deemed unreliable. To
achieve credible regional climate projections, it is essential to understand underlying …

Risk management and climate change

H Kunreuther, G Heal, M Allen, O Edenhofer… - Nature climate …, 2013 - nature.com
The selection of climate policies should be an exercise in risk management reflecting the
many relevant sources of uncertainty. Studies of climate change and its impacts rarely yield …

A protocol for probabilistic extreme event attribution analyses

S Philip, S Kew, GJ van Oldenborgh… - Advances in …, 2020 - ascmo.copernicus.org
Over the last few years, methods have been developed to answer questions on the effect of
global warming on recent extreme events. Many “event attribution” studies have now been …

Evaluation of climate models

G Flato, J Marotzke, B Abiodun, P Braconnot… - Climate change 2013 …, 2014 - pure.mpg.de
Climate models have continued to be developed and improved since the AR4, and many
models have been extended into Earth System models by including the representation of …

Near-term climate change: projections and predictability

B Kirtman, SB Power, AJ Adedoyin, GJ Boer, R Bojariu… - 2013 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
This chapter assesses the scientific literature describing expectations for near-term climate
(present through mid-century). Unless otherwise stated," near-term" change and the …

Configuration and assessment of the GISS ModelE2 contributions to the CMIP5 archive

GA Schmidt, M Kelley, L Nazarenko… - Journal of Advances …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present a description of the ModelE2 version of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies
(GISS) General Circulation Model (GCM) and the configurations used in the simulations …

Climate model genealogy: Generation CMIP5 and how we got there

R Knutti, D Masson, A Gettelman - Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A new ensemble of climate models is becoming available and provides the basis for climate
change projections. Here, we show a first analysis indicating that the models in the new …

Ensemble prediction and intercomparison analysis of GRACE time‐variable gravity field models

C Sakumura, S Bettadpur… - Geophysical Research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Precise measurements of the Earth's time‐varying gravitational field from the
NASA/Deutsches Zentrum für Luft‐und Raumfahrt Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment …

[HTML][HTML] A new global surface temperature reconstruction for the Last Glacial Maximum

JD Annan, JC Hargreaves, T Mauritsen - Climate of the Past, 2022 - cp.copernicus.org
We present a new reconstruction of surface air temperature and sea surface temperature for
the Last Glacial Maximum. The method blends model fields and sparse proxy-based point …

Quantifying future climate change

M Collins, RE Chandler, PM Cox, JM Huthnance… - Nature Climate …, 2012 - nature.com
Quantitative projections of future climate are in increasing demand from the scientific
community, policymakers and other stakeholders. Climate models of varying complexity are …