scholarly journals Investigating the Role of Biogeochemical Processes in the Northern High Latitudes on Global Climate Feedbacks Using an Efficient Scalable Earth System Model

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atul K. Jain
Keyword(s):  
Global Climate ◽  
Earth System Model ◽  
System Model ◽  
Biogeochemical Processes ◽  
High Latitudes ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Climate Feedbacks

The role of land surface dynamics in glacial inception: a study with the UVic Earth System Model

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 515-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. J. Meissner ◽  
A. J. Weaver ◽  
H. D. Matthews ◽  
P. M. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Land Surface ◽  
Earth System Model ◽  
System Model ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Surface Dynamics

scholarly journals Improving the representation of anthropogenic CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in climate models: impact of a new parameterization for the Community Earth System Model (CESM)

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1045-1062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Navarro ◽  
Raúl Moreno ◽  
Francisco J. Tapiador
Keyword(s):  
Human Activities ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Grid Point ◽  
Earth System Model ◽  
Population Projections ◽  
Pollutant Emissions ◽  
System Model ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Community Earth System Model

Abstract. ESMs (Earth system models) are important tools that help scientists understand the complexities of the Earth's climate. Advances in computing power have permitted the development of increasingly complex ESMs and the introduction of better, more accurate parameterizations of processes that are too complex to be described in detail. One of the least well-controlled parameterizations involves human activities and their direct impact at local and regional scales. In order to improve the direct representation of human activities and climate, we have developed a simple, scalable approach that we have named the POPEM module (POpulation Parameterization for Earth Models). This module computes monthly fossil fuel emissions at grid-point scale using the modeled population projections. This paper shows how integrating POPEM parameterization into the CESM (Community Earth System Model) enhances the realism of global climate modeling, improving this beyond simpler approaches. The results show that it is indeed advantageous to model CO2 emissions and pollutants directly at model grid points rather than using the same mean value globally. A major bonus of this approach is the increased capacity to understand the potential effects of localized pollutant emissions on long-term global climate statistics, thus assisting adaptation and mitigation policies.

scholarly journals Northern Hemisphere storminess in the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM1-M)

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 8975-9015
Author(s):  
E. M. Knudsen ◽  
J. E. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Climate Model ◽  
System Model ◽  
High Latitudes ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Projected Changes

Abstract. Metrics of storm activity in Northern Hemisphere high- and midlatitudes are evaluated from historical output and future projections by the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM1-M) coupled global climate model. The European Re-Analysis Interim (ERA-Interim) and the Community Climate System Model (CCSM4), a global climate model of the same vintage as NorESM1-M, provide benchmarks for comparison. The focus is on the autumn and early winter (September through December), the period when the ongoing and projected Arctic sea ice retreat is greatest. Storm tracks derived from a vorticity-based algorithm for storm identification are reproduced well by NorESM1-M, although the tracks are somewhat better resolved in the higher-resolution ERA-Interim and CCSM4. The tracks are projected to shift polewards in the future as climate changes under the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) forcing scenarios. Cyclones are projected to become generally more intense in the high-latitudes, especially over the Alaskan region, although in some other areas the intensity is projected to decrease. While projected changes in track density are less coherent, there is a general tendency towards less frequent storms in midlatitudes and more frequent storms in high-latitudes, especially the Baffin Bay/Davis Strait region. Autumn precipitation is projected to increase significantly across the entire high-latitudes. Together with the projected increases in storm intensity and sea level and the loss of sea ice, this increase in precipitation implies a greater vulnerability to coastal flooding and erosion, especially in the Alaskan region. The projected changes in storm intensity and precipitation (as well as sea ice and sea level pressure) scale generally linearly with the RCP value of the forcing and with time through the 21st century.

scholarly journals Impact of an extremely large magnitude volcanic eruption on the global climate and carbon cycle estimated from ensemble Earth System Model simulations

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 8693-8732 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Segschneider ◽  
A. Beitsch ◽  
C. Timmreck ◽  
V. Brovkin ◽  
T. Ilyina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Cycle ◽  
Carbon Content ◽  
Volcanic Eruption ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Earth System Model ◽  
System Model ◽  
Carbon Pools ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Ensemble Mean ◽  
Atmospheric Carbon

Abstract. The response of the global climate-carbon cycle system to an extremely large Northern Hemisphere mid latitude volcanic eruption is investigated using ensemble integrations with the comprehensive Earth System Model MPI-ESM. The model includes dynamical compartments of the atmosphere and ocean and interactive modules of the terrestrial biosphere as well as ocean biogeochemistry. The MPI-ESM was forced with anomalies of aerosol optical depth and effective radius of aerosol particles corresponding to a super eruption of the Yellowstone volcanic system. The model experiment consists of an ensemble of fifteen model integrations that are started at different pre-ENSO states of a contol experiment and run for 200 yr after the volcanic eruption. The climate response to the volcanic eruption is a maximum global monthly mean surface air temperature cooling of 3.8 K for the ensemble mean and from 3.3 K to 4.3 K for individual ensemble members. Atmospheric pCO2 decreases by a maximum of 5 ppm for the ensemble mean and by 3 ppm to 7 ppm for individual ensemble members approximately 6 yr after the eruption. The atmospheric carbon content only very slowly returns to near pre-eruption level at year 200 after the eruption. The ocean takes up carbon shortly after the eruption in response to the cooling, changed wind fields, and ice cover. This physics driven uptake is weakly counteracted by a reduction of the biological export production mainly in the tropical Pacific. The land vegetation pool shows a distinct loss of carbon in the initial years after the eruption which has not been present in simulations of smaller scale eruptions. The gain of the soil carbon pool determines the amplitude of the CO2 perturbation and the long term behaviour of the overall system: an initial gain caused by reduced soil respiration is followed by a rather slow return towards pre-eruption levels. During this phase, the ocean compensates partly for the reduced atmospheric carbon content in response to the land's gain. In summary, we find that the volcanic eruption has long lasting effects on the carbon cycle: after 200 yr, the ocean and the land carbon pools are still different from the pre-eruption state, and the land carbon pools (vegetation and soil) show some long lasting local anomalies that are only partly visible in the global signal.

Indian Summer Monsoon as simulated by the regional earth system model RegCM-ES: the role of local air–sea interaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 759-778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Di Sante ◽  
Erika Coppola ◽  
Riccardo Farneti ◽  
Filippo Giorgi
Keyword(s):  
Summer Monsoon ◽  
Indian Summer Monsoon ◽  
Earth System Model ◽  
System Model ◽  
Earth System

An assessment of marine biogeochemical processes in the tropical Atlantic in NorESMs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shunya Koseki ◽  
Lander Rodriguez Crespo ◽  
Noel Keenlyside
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Cycle ◽  
Earth System Model ◽  
System Model ◽  
Tropical Atlantic ◽  
Biogeochemical Processes ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Equatorial Atlantic ◽  
Subsurface Ocean ◽  
Mean Sea Surface ◽  
Summer Bloom

&lt;p&gt;Most state-of-the-art earth system model still exhibit large biases in the tropical Atlantic. This study aims to investigate how the physical bias influences the marine biogeochemical processes in the tropical Atlantic using Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM). We assess four different configurations of NorESM: NorESM version 1is taken as benchmark (NorESM-CTL), a version of this model with a physical bias correction using anomaly coupling (NorESM-AC), and NorESM version 2 with low and medium atmospheric resolution (NorESM-LM/NorESM-MM) is also utilized.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With respect to NorESM-CTL, the annual-mean sea surface temperature (SST) bias is improved largely in NorESM-AC and NorESM-MM in the equatorial Atlantic and southeast Atlantic. On the other hand, the improvement of seasonal cycle of SST can be seen in NorESM-AC and the two versions of NorESM2; development of Atlantic Cold Tongue (ACT) is realistic in terms of location and timing. Corresponding to the ACT seasonal cycle, the primary production in the equatorial Atlantic is also improved and in particular, the Atlantic summer bloom is well represented in NorESM-AC and NorESM-MM even though the amount of production is still much smaller than satellite observations. This realistic summer bloom can be related to the well-represented shallow thermocline and associated nitrate supply from the subsurface ocean at the equator.&lt;/p&gt;

Evaluation of Organized Convection Parameterization in Global Climate Models

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Chieh Chen ◽  
Changhai Liu ◽  
Mitch Moncrieff ◽  
Yaga Richter
Keyword(s):  
Climate Models ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Earth System Model ◽  
Global Climate Models ◽  
System Model ◽  
Moist Convection ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Mesoscale Convective ◽  
Convective Organization ◽  
Organized Convection

&lt;p&gt;The importance of convective organization on the global circulation has been recognized for a long time, but parameterizations of the associated processes are missing in global climate models. Contemporary convective parameterizations commonly use a convective plume model (or a spectrum of plumes). This is perhaps appropriate for unorganized convection but the assumption of a gap between the small cumulus scale and the large-scale motion fails to recognize mesoscale dynamics manifested in mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) and multi-scale cloud systems associated with the MJO. Organized convection is abundant in environments featuring vertical wind shear, and significantly modulates the life cycle of moist convection, the transport of heat and momentum, and accounts for a large percentage of precipitation in the tropics. Mesoscale convective organization is typically associated with counter-gradient momentum transport, and distinct heating profiles between the convective and stratiform regions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moncrieff, Liu and Bogenschutz (2017) recently developed a dynamical based parameterization of organized moisture convection, referred to as multiscale coherent structure parameterization (MCSP), for global climate models. A prototype version of MCSP has been implemented in the NCAR Community Earth System Model (CESM) and the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), positively affecting the distribution of tropical precipitation, convectively coupled tropical waves, and the Madden-Julian oscillation. We will show the further development of the MCSP and its impact on the simulation of mean precipitation and variability in the two global climate models.&lt;/p&gt;

scholarly journals The Mechanistic Role of the Central American Seaway in a GFDL Earth System Model. Part 1: Impacts on Global Ocean Mean State and Circulation

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 840-859 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori T. Sentman ◽  
John P. Dunne ◽  
Ronald J. Stouffer ◽  
John P. Krasting ◽  
J. R. Toggweiler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Earth System Model ◽  
Central American ◽  
System Model ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Central American Seaway ◽  
Mean State

scholarly journals Northern Hemisphere storminess in the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM1-M)

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 2335-2355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erlend M. Knudsen ◽  
John E. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Climate Model ◽  
System Model ◽  
High Latitudes ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Projected Changes

Abstract. Metrics of storm activity in Northern Hemisphere high and midlatitudes are evaluated from historical output and future projections by the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM1-M) coupled global climate model. The European Re-Analysis Interim (ERA-Interim) and the Community Climate System Model (CCSM4), a global climate model of the same vintage as NorESM1-M, provide benchmarks for comparison. The focus is on the autumn and early winter (September through December) – the period when the ongoing and projected Arctic sea ice retreat is the greatest. Storm tracks derived from a vorticity-based algorithm for storm identification are reproduced well by NorESM1-M, although the tracks are somewhat better resolved in the higher-resolution ERA-Interim and CCSM4. The tracks show indications of shifting polewards in the future as climate changes under the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) forcing scenarios. Cyclones are projected to become generally more intense in the high latitudes, especially over the Alaskan region, although in some other areas the intensity is projected to decrease. While projected changes in track density are less coherent, there is a general tendency towards less frequent storms in midlatitudes and more frequent storms in high latitudes, especially the Baffin Bay/Davis Strait region in September. Autumn precipitation is projected to increase significantly across the entire high latitudes. Together with the projected loss of sea ice and increases in storm intensity and sea level, this increase in precipitation implies a greater vulnerability to coastal flooding and erosion, especially in the Alaskan region. The projected changes in storm intensity and precipitation (as well as sea ice and sea level pressure) scale generally linearly with the RCP value of the forcing and with time through the 21st century.

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