meeting summary The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) (2009)
Gerald A. Meehl, George J. Boer, Curt Covey, Mojib Latif, Ronald J. Stouffer
The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) was established to study and intercompare climate simulations made with coupled ocean–atmosphere–cryosphere–land GCMs. There are two main phases...
POLICYFORUM CLIMATE CHANGE Stationarity Is Dead: Whither Water Management? (2009)
Julio Betancourt, Malin Falkenmark, Robert M. Hirsch, Zbigniew W, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, ...
Climate change undermines a basic assumption that historically has facilitated management of water supplies, demands, and risks. Systems for management of water throughout the developed world have...
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Diagnosing atmosphere-ocean general circulation model errors relevant to the terrestrial biosphere using the Köppen climate classification
Arctic Oscillation response to volcanic eruptions in the IPCC AR4 climate models (2009)
Georgiy Stenchikov, Kevin Hamilton, Ronald J. Stouffer, Alan Robock, V. Ramaswamy, Ben Santer, ...
[1] Stratospheric sulfate aerosol particles from strong volcanic eruptions produce significant transient cooling of the troposphere and warming of the lower stratosphere. The radiative impact of...
Climate Dynamics (2005) 24: 325–346 DOI 10.1007/s00382-004-0499-5 (2009)
Kristina A. Dahl, Æ Anthony, J. Broccoli, Ronald J. Stouffer, K. A. Dahl, A. J. Broccoli, ...
Abstract This study analyzes a three-member ensemble of experiments, in which 0.1 Sv of freshwater was applied to the North Atlantic for 100 years in order to address the potential for large...
2006: Response of the ITCZ to Northern Hemisphere cooling. Geophys (2009)
Anthony J. Broccoli, Kristina A. Dahl, Ronald J. Stouffer
[1] Climate simulations, using models with different levels of complexity, indicate that the north-south position of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) responds to changes in interhemispheric...
Svukuro Manabe, Ronald J. Stouffer, Syukuro Manabea, Ronald J. Stoufferb
This paper is rewritten for the recent PAGES Open Science meeting, revising the paper published earlier in PaJeoceanography(12 (1997), 321-336). It contains the improved discussion of the suggested...
Keith W. Dixon, Thomas L. Delworth, Thomas R. Knutson, Michael J. Spelman, Ronald J. Stouffer
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2006: GFDL’s CM2 global coupled climate models. Part II: The baseline ocean simulation (2009)
Anand Gnanadesikan, Keith W. Dixon, Stephen M. Griffies, V. Balaji, Marcelo Barreiro, J. Anthony Beesley, ...
The WCRP CMIP3 multimodel dataset: A new ero in climate change research (2007)
A. Meehl, Curt Covey, Thomas Delworth, Mojib Latif, Bryant Mcavaney, ...
Open access to an unprecedented, comprehensive coordinated set of global coupled climate model experiments for twentieth and twenty-first century climate and other experiments is changing the way...
Temperature trends at the surface and in the troposphere (2006)
Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, Norman C. Grody, Alan Robock, Ronald J. Stouffer, Philip D. Jones, Mitchell D. Goldberg
[1] This paper incorporates the latest improvements in intersatellite calibration, along with a new statistical technique, to determine the diurnal and seasonal cycles and climatic trends of...
Ronald J. Stouffer, Dan Seidov, J. Haupt
The response of an atmosphere–ocean general circulation model (AOGCM) to perturbations of freshwater fluxes across the sea surface in the North Atlantic and Southern Ocean is investigated. The...
Jianjun Yin, Ronald J. Stouffer
Two coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation models developed at GFDL show differing stability properties of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation (THC) in the Coupled Model Intercomparison...
Modeled Impact of Anthropogenic Land Cover Change on Climate (2006)
Kirsten L. Findell, Elena Shevliakova, Ronald J. Stouffer
Equilibrium experiments with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory’s climate model are used to investigate the impact of anthropogenic land cover change on climate. Regions of altered land...
Joellen L. Russell, Ronald J. Stouffer, W. Dixon
The analyses presented here focus on the Southern Ocean as simulated in a set of global coupled climate model control experiments conducted by several international climate modeling groups. Dominated...
Joellen L. Russell, Keith W. Dixon, Anand Gnanadesikan, Ronald J. Stouffer, J. R. Toggweiler
A coupled climate model with poleward-intensified westerly winds simulates significantly higher storage of heat and anthropogenic carbon dioxide by the Southern Ocean in the future when compared with...
Time scales of climate response (2004)
A coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation model (AOGCM) is integrated to a near-equilibrium state with the normal, half-normal, and twice-normal amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere....
Projection of Climate Change onto Modes of Atmospheric Variability (2000)
Dáithí A. Stone, J. Weaver, Ronald J. Stouffer
Two possible interpretations of forced climate change view it as projecting, either linearly or nonlinearly, onto the dominant modes of variability of the climate system. An evaluation of these two...
Jonathan M. Gregory, Ronald J. Stouffer
The role of climate sensitivity and ocean heat uptake in determining the range of climate model response is investigated in the second phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP2) AOGCM...
Global Warming and Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent (1999)
D. E. Savage, B. S. Swartzentruber, G. Medeiros-ribeiro, A. M. Bratkovsky, T. I. Kamins, ...
13. We thank K. Pope for Rutherford backscattering analysis
Ronald J. Stouffer, Gabriele Hegerl
This study compares the variability of surface air temperature in three long coupled ocean–atmosphere general circulation model integrations. It is shown that the annual mean climatology of the...
Peter Müller, Ronald J. Stouffer, Reinhard Voss
This paper studies the variability of deep-ocean mass transport using four 1000-yr integrations performed with coupled general circulation models. Statistics describing the spectral and spatial...
The influence of differing rates of increase of the atmospheric CO 2 concentration on the climatic response is investigated using a coupled ocean–atmosphere model. Five transient integrations are...
Thomas L. Delworth, Syukuro Manabe, Ronald J. Stouffer
Abstract. Pronounced oscillations of ocean temperature temperature (SST) and climate in the Greenland Sea (see and salinity occur in the Greenland Sea in a 2000 year Fig. 1) and surrounding regions....
Joellen L. Russell, Ronald J. Stouffer, W. Dixon
(Manuscript received and in final form 3 April 2007) In Russell et al. (2006), the value of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) transport calculated by Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)...