How reliable are climate models?

J Raäisaänen - Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
How much can we trust model-based projections of future anthropogenic climate change?
This review attempts to give an overview of this important but difficult topic by using three …

[HTML][HTML] Calculation of average, uncertainty range, and reliability of regional climate changes from AOGCM simulations via the “reliability ensemble averaging”(REA) …

F Giorgi, LO Mearns - Journal of climate, 2002 - journals.ametsoc.org
Calculation of Average, Uncertainty Range, and Reliability of Regional Climate Changes
from AOGCM Simulations via the “Reliability Ensemble Averaging” (REA) Method in …

[PDF][PDF] Polar regions (arctic and antarctic)

OA Anisimov, DG Vaughan, TV Callaghan, C Furgal… - Climate change, 2007 - Citeseer
• In the Arctic, extensive land areas show a 20th-century warming trend in air temperature of
as much as 5 C. Over sea ice, there has been slight warming in the 1961–1990 period …

Evaluating uncertainties in the prediction of regional climate change

F Giorgi, R Francisco - Geophysical Research Letters, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Uncertainties in regional climate change simulations for the 21st century by five coupled
atmosphere‐ocean General Circulation Models (AOGCMs)(two of them including …

Water resources implications of global warming: A US regional perspective

DP Lettenmaier, AW Wood, RN Palmer, EF Wood… - Climatic Change, 1999 - Springer
The implications of global warming for the performance of six US water resource systems
are evaluated. The six case study sites represent a range of geographic and hydrologic, as …

Modelling the impacts of climate change on Australian streamflow

FHS Chiew, TA McMahon - Hydrological Processes, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the likely impacts of climate change on runoff, evapotranspiration and
soil moisture in the more populated and important agricultural regions of Australia. The …

[PDF][PDF] Small island states

LA Nurse, G Sem, JE Hay, AG Suarez… - Climate …, 2001 - www-iam.nies.go.jp
The small island states considered in this chapter are located mainly in the tropics and the
subtropics. These island states span the ocean regions of the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic, as …

Variability and trends of sub-continental scale surface climate in the twentieth century. Part I: observations

F Giorgi - Climate dynamics, 2002 - Springer
An analysis is presented of observed temperature and precipitation variability and trends
throughout the twentieth century over 22 land regions of sub-continental scale. Summer …

Adaptation to what and why?

AB Pittock, RN Jones - Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2000 - Springer
Adaptation in response to anthropogenic climate change seeks to maintain viability by
maximising benefits and minimising losses. It is necessary because some climatic change is …

[PDF][PDF] Australian temperature, Australian rainfall and the Southern Oscillation, 1910-1992: coherent variability and recent changes

B Lavery, R Dahni, B McAvaney - Australian Meteorological …, 1998 - researchgate.net
coherent variability and recent changes Page 1 Aust. Met. Mag. 47 (1998) 85-101 Australian
temperature, Australian rainfall and the Southern Oscillation, 1910-1992: coherent variability …