The Mediterranean climate change hotspot in the CMIP5 and CMIP6 projections

J Cos, F Doblas-Reyes, M Jury, R Marcos… - Earth System …, 2022 - esd.copernicus.org
The enhanced warming trend and precipitation decline in the Mediterranean region make it
a climate change hotspot. We compare projections of multiple Coupled Model …

Reduced global warming from CMIP6 projections when weighting models by performance and independence

L Brunner, AG Pendergrass, F Lehner… - Earth System …, 2020 - esd.copernicus.org
The sixth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) constitutes the latest update on
expected future climate change based on a new generation of climate models. To extract …

Large ensemble climate model simulations: introduction, overview, and future prospects for utilising multiple types of large ensemble

N Maher, S Milinski, R Ludwig - Earth System Dynamics, 2021 - esd.copernicus.org
Single model initial-condition large ensembles (SMILEs) are valuable tools that can be used
to investigate the climate system. SMILEs allow scientists to quantify and separate the …

Climate model Selection by Independence, Performance, and Spread (ClimSIPS v1. 0.1) for regional applications

AL Merrifield, L Brunner, R Lorenz… - Geoscientific Model …, 2023 - gmd.copernicus.org
As the number of models in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) archives
increase from generation to generation, there is a pressing need for guidance on how to …

Rarest rainfall events will see the greatest relative increase in magnitude under future climate change

GJ Gründemann, N van de Giesen, L Brunner… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Future rainfall extremes are projected to increase with global warming according to theory
and climate models, but common (annual) and rare (decennial or centennial) extremes …

Understanding and modelling wildfire regimes: an ecological perspective

SP Harrison, IC Prentice, KJ Bloomfield… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent extreme wildfire seasons in several regions have been associated with exceptionally
hot, dry conditions, made more probable by climate change. Much research has focused on …

Comparisons between CMIP5 and CMIP6 models: Simulations of climate indices influencing food security, infrastructure resilience, and human health in Canada

SC Bourdeau‐Goulet, E Hassanzadeh - Earth's Future, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The warming climate can considerably affect socioeconomic activities and environmental
health conditions in Canada. Climate models play a key role in evaluating the impact of …

Bayesian weighting of climate models based on climate sensitivity

EC Massoud, HK Lee, A Terando… - Communications Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Using climate model ensembles containing members that exhibit very high climate
sensitivities to increasing CO2 concentrations can result in biased projections. Various …

[HTML][HTML] Performance-based sub-selection of CMIP6 models for impact assessments in Europe

TE Palmer, CF McSweeney, BBB Booth… - Earth System …, 2023 - esd.copernicus.org
We have created a performance-based assessment of CMIP6 models for Europe that can be
used to inform the sub-selection of models for this region. Our assessment covers criteria …

More accurate quantification of model-to-model agreement in externally forced climatic responses over the coming century

N Maher, SB Power, J Marotzke - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Separating how model-to-model differences in the forced response (U MD) and internal
variability (U IV) contribute to the uncertainty in climate projections is important, but …