Global Warming
The future ofclimate modelling 109 A limitation of the regional modelling technique we have described is that, although the glob ...
110 Modellingthe climate information in integrated assessment models (see box in Chapter 9, page 237). As the power of computers ...
Notes 111 solar radiation, the rest being transmitted, the planet’s surface will receive the same amount of energy as when the c ...
112 Modellingthe climate 2 Richardson, L. F. 1922. Weather Prediction by Numerical Processes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pr ...
Notes 113 12 Stocker, T. F.et al. 2001. Physical climate processes and feedbacks. In Houghton, J. T., Ding, Y., Griggs, D. J., N ...
114 Modellingthe climate 24 For more information see Giorgi, F., Hewitson, B. 2001. Regional climate information – evaluation an ...
Chapter 6 Climate change in the twenty-first century and beyond The lastchapter showed that the most effective tool we possess f ...
116 Climate changein the twenty-firstcenturyand beyond 2000 2020 2040 2060 2080 2100 5 10 15 20 25 CO emissions (Gt C) 2 A1B Sce ...
Emission scenarios 117 The emission scenarios of the Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES) The SRES scenarios are based on ...
118 Climate changein the twenty-firstcentury and beyond The next stage in the development of projections of climate change is to ...
Model projections 119 A1B A1T A1FI A2 B1 B2 IS92a Scenarios A1B A1T A1FI A2 B1 B2 IS92a Scenarios A1B A1T A1FI A2 B1 B2 IS92a Sc ...
120 Climate changein the twenty-firstcenturyand beyond Table 6.1Radiative forcing (W m−^2 ), globally averaged, for greenhouse g ...
Simple climate models In Chapter 5 a detailed description was given of general circulation models (GCMs) of the atmo- sphere and ...
122 Climate changein the twenty-firstcenturyand beyond 1800 1900 2000 2100 Year 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Forcing (W m −^2 ) A1FI A ...
Projections ofglobal averagetemperature 123 for climate change that has been widely used is the change in global average tempera ...
124 Climate changein the twenty-firstcenturyand beyond sometime in the second half of the twenty-first century, depending on the ...
Regional patternsof climate change 125 so can respond more quickly. Listed below are some of the broad fea- tures on the contine ...
126 Climate changein the twenty-firstcenturyand beyond (a) Change in temperature relative to model’s global mean Much greater th ...
Regional patternsof climate change 127 (b) Change in precipitation for scenario A2 60N 30N EQ 30S 60S 180 120W 60W 0 60E 120E 18 ...
128 Climate changein the twenty-firstcenturyand beyond page 62–3), with the warming in the eastern tropical Pacific more than th ...
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