Author: National Aeronautics and Space Adm Nasa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781728941516
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Model simulations of global climate change are seen as an essential component of any program aimed at understanding human impact on the global environment. A major weakness of current general circulation models (GCMs), however, is their inability to predict reliably the regional consequences of a global scale change, and it is these regional scale predictions that are necessary for studies of human/environmental response. This research is directed toward the development of a methodology for the validation of the synoptic scale climatology of GCMs. This is developed with regard to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) GCM Model 2, with the specific objective of using the synoptic circulation form a doubles CO2 simulation to estimate regional climate change over North America, south of Hudson Bay. This progress report is specifically concerned with validating the synoptic climatology of the GISS GCM, and developing the transfer function to derive grid-point temperatures from the synoptic circulation. Principal Components Analysis is used to characterize the primary modes of the spatial and temporal variability in the observed and simulated climate, and the model validation is based on correlations between component loadings, and power spectral analysis of the component scores. The results show that the high resolution GISS model does an excellent job of simulating the synoptic circulation over the U.S., and that grid-point temperatures can be predicted with reasonable accuracy from the circulation patterns. Crane, Robert G. and Hewitson, Bruce Unspecified Center NAG5-1133...
Regional Climate Change Predictions from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies High Resolution Gcm
Author: National Aeronautics and Space Adm Nasa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781728941516
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Model simulations of global climate change are seen as an essential component of any program aimed at understanding human impact on the global environment. A major weakness of current general circulation models (GCMs), however, is their inability to predict reliably the regional consequences of a global scale change, and it is these regional scale predictions that are necessary for studies of human/environmental response. This research is directed toward the development of a methodology for the validation of the synoptic scale climatology of GCMs. This is developed with regard to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) GCM Model 2, with the specific objective of using the synoptic circulation form a doubles CO2 simulation to estimate regional climate change over North America, south of Hudson Bay. This progress report is specifically concerned with validating the synoptic climatology of the GISS GCM, and developing the transfer function to derive grid-point temperatures from the synoptic circulation. Principal Components Analysis is used to characterize the primary modes of the spatial and temporal variability in the observed and simulated climate, and the model validation is based on correlations between component loadings, and power spectral analysis of the component scores. The results show that the high resolution GISS model does an excellent job of simulating the synoptic circulation over the U.S., and that grid-point temperatures can be predicted with reasonable accuracy from the circulation patterns. Crane, Robert G. and Hewitson, Bruce Unspecified Center NAG5-1133...
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781728941516
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Model simulations of global climate change are seen as an essential component of any program aimed at understanding human impact on the global environment. A major weakness of current general circulation models (GCMs), however, is their inability to predict reliably the regional consequences of a global scale change, and it is these regional scale predictions that are necessary for studies of human/environmental response. This research is directed toward the development of a methodology for the validation of the synoptic scale climatology of GCMs. This is developed with regard to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) GCM Model 2, with the specific objective of using the synoptic circulation form a doubles CO2 simulation to estimate regional climate change over North America, south of Hudson Bay. This progress report is specifically concerned with validating the synoptic climatology of the GISS GCM, and developing the transfer function to derive grid-point temperatures from the synoptic circulation. Principal Components Analysis is used to characterize the primary modes of the spatial and temporal variability in the observed and simulated climate, and the model validation is based on correlations between component loadings, and power spectral analysis of the component scores. The results show that the high resolution GISS model does an excellent job of simulating the synoptic circulation over the U.S., and that grid-point temperatures can be predicted with reasonable accuracy from the circulation patterns. Crane, Robert G. and Hewitson, Bruce Unspecified Center NAG5-1133...
Regional Climate Change Predictions from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies High Resolution GCM
Author: Robert G. Crane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
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ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Climate and Sea Level Change
Author: R. A. Warrick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521395168
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
An international team of experts address the questions of climate and sea level change.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521395168
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
An international team of experts address the questions of climate and sea level change.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
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The Earth Observer
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ISBN:
Category : Artificial satellites in earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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ISBN:
Category : Artificial satellites in earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States
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Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Climate Change 2014 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Part B: Regional Aspects: Volume 2, Regional Aspects
Author: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316240355
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences, including students, researchers and policy makers in environmental science, meteorology, climatology, biology, ecology, atmospheric chemistry and environmental policy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316240355
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences, including students, researchers and policy makers in environmental science, meteorology, climatology, biology, ecology, atmospheric chemistry and environmental policy.
Detecting and Modelling Regional Climate Change
Author: Manola Brunet India
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662043130
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
For the very first time, this book provides updated, integrated and organized, theoretical and methodological information on regional climate change and the associated environmental and socio-economic impacts on a regional scale. The most recent findings in the field of long-term climate change, which improve our understanding of the global climate puzzle, will be presented. Readers are introduced to state-of-the-art research in downscaling and GCMs, which involve the construction of reliable regional climate scenarios and the solution to key problems regarding the assessment of the impacts of climate change in the most important geographical areas of the world, from the Arctic to Antarctic regions, with special emphasis on the Northern Hemisphere.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662043130
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
For the very first time, this book provides updated, integrated and organized, theoretical and methodological information on regional climate change and the associated environmental and socio-economic impacts on a regional scale. The most recent findings in the field of long-term climate change, which improve our understanding of the global climate puzzle, will be presented. Readers are introduced to state-of-the-art research in downscaling and GCMs, which involve the construction of reliable regional climate scenarios and the solution to key problems regarding the assessment of the impacts of climate change in the most important geographical areas of the world, from the Arctic to Antarctic regions, with special emphasis on the Northern Hemisphere.