Beyond equilibrium climate sensitivity

R Knutti, MAA Rugenstein, GC Hegerl - Nature Geoscience, 2017 - nature.com
Equilibrium climate sensitivity characterizes the Earth's long-term global temperature
response to increased atmospheric CO2 concentration. It has reached almost iconic status …

The use of the multi-model ensemble in probabilistic climate projections

C Tebaldi, R Knutti - … transactions of the royal society A …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Recent coordinated efforts, in which numerous climate models have been run for a common
set of experiments, have produced large datasets of projections of future climate for various …

[PDF][PDF] Climate models and their evaluation

DA Randall, RA Wood, S Bony, R Colman… - Climate change 2007 …, 2007 - pure.mpg.de
This chapter assesses the capacity of the global climate models used elsewhere in this
report for projecting future climate change. Confidence in model estimates of future climate …

Understanding and attributing climate change

GC Hegerl, FW Zwiers, P Braconnot, NP Gillett… - Contribution of Working …, 2007 - hal.science
Evidence of the effect of external influences on the climate system has continued to
accumulate since the Third Assessment Report (TAR). The evidence now available is …

Evaluation of CMIP5 palaeo-simulations to improve climate projections

SP Harrison, PJ Bartlein, K Izumi, G Li, J Annan… - Nature Climate …, 2015 - nature.com
Structural differences among models account for much of the uncertainty in projected climate
changes, at least until the mid-twenty-first century. Recent observations encompass too …

[HTML][HTML] The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6–Part 1: Overview and over-arching analysis plan

M Kageyama, P Braconnot, SP Harrison… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
This paper is the first of a series of four GMD papers on the PMIP4-CMIP6 experiments. Part
2 (Otto-Bliesner et al., 2017) gives details about the two PMIP4-CMIP6 interglacial …

A new global reconstruction of temperature changes at the Last Glacial Maximum

JD Annan, JC Hargreaves - Climate of the Past, 2013 - cp.copernicus.org
Some recent compilations of proxy data both on land and ocean (MARGO Project Members,
2009; Bartlein et al., 2011; Shakun et al., 2012), have provided a new opportunity for an …

The equilibrium sensitivity of the Earth's temperature to radiation changes

R Knutti, GC Hegerl - Nature Geoscience, 2008 - nature.com
The Earth's climate is changing rapidly as a result of anthropogenic carbon emissions, and
damaging impacts are expected to increase with warming. To prevent these and limit long …

How reliable are climate models?

J Raäisaänen - Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
How much can we trust model-based projections of future anthropogenic climate change?
This review attempts to give an overview of this important but difficult topic by using three …

Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum–Part 2: feedbacks with emphasis on the location of the ITCZ and mid-and high …

P Braconnot, B Otto-Bliesner, S Harrison… - Climate of the …, 2007 - cp.copernicus.org
A set of coupled ocean-atmosphere (-vegetation) simulations using state of the art climate
models is now available for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the Mid-Holocene (MH) …