1. GSICS User Expectations at Met Office
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GSICS User Expectations at Met Office
Roger Saunders and Viju John
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2. European Summer Temperatures
Observed temperatures
Simulated temperatures
2060s
2040s
2003
Observed Summer temperatures over land for Europe from CRUTEM3 (Western Europe west of 20E)
Model Simulations, HadGEM1. 3 Ensembles of Anthropogenic+natural forced simulations. From ensembles forced with A2 and A1B scenario.
Summer 2003:
normal by 2040s, cool by 2060s
Stott Nature 2004 – updated to 2007 – HadGEM1
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3. Satellite data in climate monitoring : e. g
Satellite data in climate monitoring : e.g. validating modelled temperature trends
Lower stratosphere
Lower troposphere
From US Climate Change Science Program: Synthesis and Assessment Product 1.1
April 2006.
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4. Uses of satellite data at the Hadley Centre
Climate monitoring and attribution (CDRs) to ascertain decadal and longer term changes
To develop, constrain and validate climate models thus gaining confidence in projections of future change
Input to reanalyses (e.g. ERA-CLIM, EURRA)
Seasonal and decadal model initialisation (ocean, land surface, stratosphere)
Coupled ocean-atmosphere data assimilation
To identify biases in current and past in situ measurements (e.g. buoys with ATSR)
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5. CLIMETOP Data archive
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6. TOVS/ATOVS satellite data 1978-2002
Year
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7. HadIR Project
Provide >30 years of homogenised all-sky IR radiances to:
Use operational atmospheric sounders
Quantify and reduce uncertainty in temperature and humidity changes aloft.
Assess model simulations of recent climate accounting for both model and observational uncertainty.
Estimate all-sky (and clear-sky) long-wave feedbacks.
Contribute to the next generation reanalysis projects (e.g. ERA-CLIM, EURRA)
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8. Climate monitoring using GPS radio occultation bending angles
Bending angle trends at the equator
Zonal Mean change in bending angle at 2050
26 km
20 km
12 km
Height
SP NP
This study indicates that trends in bending angle could be detectable above natural climate variability within 10 – 15 years.
Ringer and Healy 2008, GRL
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