Assessment of offshore wind speed and power potential over the Mediterranean and the Black Seas under future climate changes

I Koletsis, V Kotroni, K Lagouvardos… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Renewable energy resources including wind power are being increasingly harnessed to
provide electricity generation potential with negligible emissions of carbon dioxide …

[HTML][HTML] A brief history of climate–the northern seas from the Last Glacial Maximum to global warming

T Eldevik, B Risebrobakken, AE Bjune… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
The understanding of climate and climate change is fundamentally concerned with two
things: a well-defined and sufficiently complete climate record to be explained, for example …

The Norwegian Earth System Model, NorESM1-M–Part 1: description and basic evaluation of the physical climate

M Bentsen, I Bethke, JB Debernard… - Geoscientific Model …, 2013 - gmd.copernicus.org
The core version of the Norwegian Climate Center's Earth System Model, named NorESM1-
M, is presented. The NorESM family of models are based on the Community Climate System …

[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 …

Global warming and the weakening of the tropical circulation

GA Vecchi, BJ Soden - Journal of Climate, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study examines the response of the tropical atmospheric and oceanic circulation to
increasing greenhouse gases using a coordinated set of twenty-first-century climate model …

External forcing as a metronome for Atlantic multidecadal variability

OH Otterå, M Bentsen, H Drange, L Suo - Nature Geoscience, 2010 - nature.com
Instrumental records, proxy data and climate modelling show that multidecadal variability is
a dominant feature of North Atlantic sea-surface temperature variations,,,, with potential …

Implications of global climate change for snowmelt hydrology in the twenty‐first century

JC Adam, AF Hamlet… - … : An International Journal, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
For most of the global land area poleward of about 40° latitude, snow plays an important role
in the water cycle. The (seasonal) timing of runoff in these areas is especially sensitive to …

Evaluation of cloud and water vapor simulations in CMIP5 climate models using NASA “A‐Train” satellite observations

JH Jiang, H Su, C Zhai, VS Perun… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Using NASA's A‐Train satellite measurements, we evaluate the accuracy of cloud water
content (CWC) and water vapor mixing ratio (H2O) outputs from 19 climate models …

Generating downscaled weather data from a suite of climate models for agricultural modelling applications

PG Jones, PK Thornton - Agricultural Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
We describe a generalised downscaling and data generation method that takes the outputs
of a General Circulation Model and allows the stochastic generation of daily weather data …

Causes of the rapid warming of the North Atlantic Ocean in the mid-1990s

J Robson, R Sutton, K Lohmann, D Smith… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
In the mid-1990s, the subpolar gyre of the North Atlantic underwent a remarkable rapid
warming, with sea surface temperatures increasing by around 1° C in just 2 yr. This rapid …