Underestimating Internal Variability Leads to Narrow Estimates of Climate System Properties [PDF]
Probabilistic estimates of climate system properties often rely on the comparison of model simulations to observed temperature records and an estimate of the internal climate variability.
Forest, CE +3 more
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Representation of climate extreme indices in the ACCESS1.3b coupled atmosphere–land surface model [PDF]
Climate extremes, such as heat waves and heavy precipitation events, have large impacts on ecosystems and societies. Climate models provide useful tools for studying underlying processes and amplifying effects associated with extremes.
R. Lorenz +7 more
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Disentangling different types of El Ni\~no episodes by evolving climate network analysis [PDF]
Complex network theory provides a powerful toolbox for studying the structure of statistical interrelationships between multiple time series in various scientific disciplines.
Donges, Jonathan F. +4 more
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Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment
Black carbon aerosol plays a unique and important role in Earth's climate system. Black carbon is a type of carbonaceous material with a unique combination of physical properties.
Tami C. Bond +30 more
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Global and regional importance of the direct dust-climate feedback. [PDF]
Feedbacks between the global dust cycle and the climate system might have amplified past climate changes. Yet, it remains unclear what role the dust-climate feedback will play in future anthropogenic climate change.
Evan, Amato T +3 more
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Diagnosing the seasonal land–atmosphere correspondence over northern Australia: dependence on soil moisture state and correspondence strength definition [PDF]
The similarity of the temporal variations of land and atmospheric states during the onset (September) through to the peak (February) of the wet season over northern Australia is statistically diagnosed using ensembles of offline land surface model ...
M. Decker, A. Pitman, J. Evans
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Global soil moisture bimodality in satellite observations and climate models [PDF]
A new diagnostic metric based on soil moisture bimodality is developed in order to examine and compare soil moisture from satellite observations and Earth System Models.
de Jeu, RAM +3 more
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Thermodynamics of climate change: generalized sensitivities [PDF]
Using a recent theoretical approach, we study how global warming impacts the thermodynamics of the climate system by performing experiments with a simplified yet Earth-like climate model.
Fraedrich, Klaus +2 more
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The Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model (BCC-CSM): the main progress from CMIP5 to CMIP6
. The main advancements of the Beijing Climate Center (BCC) climate system model from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) to phase 6 (CMIP6) are presented, in terms of physical parameterizations and model performance.
Tongwen Wu +21 more
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Extreme Weather and Climate Change: Population Health and Health System Implications.
Extreme weather and climate events, such as heat waves, cyclones, and floods, are an expression of climate variability. These events and events influenced by climate change, such as wildfires, continue to cause significant human morbidity and mortality ...
K. Ebi +10 more
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