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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
The modelling of the climate system
Professor Lennart Bengtsson
ESSC, University of Reading
Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Temperature change1854 - 2004 ( land areas only)
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Temperature change1854 - 1904 ( land areas only)
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Temperature change1904 - 1954 ( land areas only)
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Temperature change1954 - 2004 ( land areas only)
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Temperature change 1954 - 2004
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
The modelling of the climate system
What is climate? Climate variations on different time-scales
The modelling of climate Atmospheric modelling and weather prediction
Modelling of the Earth climate system How predictable is climate?
Model simulation of the present climate Why is the climate changing?
Climate change prediction Concluding remarks
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
The classical view on climate
Climate as a stationary concept
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Köppen climate zones
Main groups• A: Tropical rainy climate, all months > +18 C• B: Dry climate, Evaporation > Precipitation• C: Mild humid climate, coldest month +18 C - -3 C• D: Snowy - forest climate, coldest month < -3C but warmest > +10• E: Polar climate , warmest month < +10 C• ET: Tundra climate, warmest month > 0 C
• Subgroups• f : Moist, no dry seasons• w: Dry season in winter• s : Dry season in summer
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
GPCP (Prec) CRU2 (Temp)
ECHAM5
T159
Köppen climate zones
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
What is climate?
• Climate is nowadays generally defined as a comprehensive statistical description of weather ( including extremes) over a sufficiently long period of time (30-100 years)
• There is no sharp distinction between weather and climate• There are free atmospheric modes of circulation that have time-scales of up to about two years ( quasi-biennal
oscillation)• There are coupled ocean-atmospheric modes that have
time-scales from weeks to several decades. A dominant feature is the El-Nino phenomenon in the eastern tropical Pacific ocean with a time-scale of about four years.
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
The present view on climate
Climate as a dynamical system
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Climate variations on different time-scales
• Climate variations are dominated by chaotic weather events
• Other variations are due to coupled ocean-atmosphere processes which could cover longer periods of time. They are probably also mainly chaotic.
• Climate would also vary due to changes in solar irradiation( regular or otherwise) and under the influence of volcanic aerosols
• Climate also varies due to changes in the composition of the atmosphere such as greenhouse gases and aerosols
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Shorter term climate variations and their likely causes
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Natural temperature variationsENSO influence
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Natural temperature variationsPinatubo and ENSO
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
The modelling of climate
• Prior to the 1950s climate was essentially a descriptive science, but general ideas of the general circulation of the atmosphere and the oceans existed
• Over the past 50 years the direction of climate research has changed driven by space based observations and mathematical modelling of the climate system.
• Climate modelling has occurred along three lines:
• - increased numerical resolution and more accurate treatment of individual physical and chemical processes
• - coupling of individual model components of the climate into Earth system models including aspects of the biosphere
• - ensemble predictions to be able to separate signal from noise.
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• What is a CLIMATE MODEL?
• A COMPUTER PROGRAM which numerically solves the MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS that represent the LAWS OF PHYSICS.
• Components include the: ATMOSPHERE, OCEAN, LAND, CRYOSPHERE and BIOSPHERE and all the dynamics, physical processes and interactions between them.
• The most comprehensive climate models include:GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCMs) as atmospheric and oceanic components.
• An AGCM follows the evolution of all the weather systems, clouds, and rain, and the interactions with the land and ocean.
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• Climate system in pictorial form
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• Climate system as a principle system
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• Climate model components
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• The strategy of climate research
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• Significant atmospheric processes
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• Aspects of numerics & physicalparameterizations for AGCMs
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• Resolution issues
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Modelling error as a function of horisontal and vertical resolution
(ECHAM climate model 2005)
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Normalized RMSE [ % ]
T21_L19T31_L19T42_L31T42_L19T85_L19T106_L19T63_L19T63_L31T85_L31T106_L31T159_L31
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
How well can model simulate present climate?
Some examples
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Typical cyclone storm tracks
Tracks Intensities
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Storm track density ERA40 (left, 1979 - 2002)ECHAM5 ( right, 1979 - 1999, atmos. model run)
for the relative vorticity at 850 mb
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Number of extra-tropical storms at the Northern Hemisphere as a function of intensity during winter
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
ECHAM5simulated
ERA40determined
from analyses.
Köppen climate zones
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
How predictable is climate?
• Do we have a unique climate?
• Predictability of weather • and predictability of climate
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• CLIMATE PREDICTION AND CHAOS
• “ For want of a nail, the shoe was lost;
• For want of a shoe, the horse was lost;
• For want of a horse, the rider was lost;
• For want of a rider, the battle was lost;
• For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost “
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• Predictability of weather
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
ECMWF EPS: Forecast Started 8th January 00UTC
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
ECMWF EPS: Forecast Started 6th January 00UTC
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• Predictability of snow in Germany
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Why is the climate changing?
• There are natural changes on a variety of time scales.
• Some of these changes are chaotic and unpredictable.
• Sometimes chaotic events are inadvertently interpreted as due to specific external events ( e.g. solar forcing, volcanic eruptions, human influences etc.).
• However, increasing greenhouse gases exercise a real influence on climate and observations and model results are supporting each other
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• The greenhouse effect
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• The greenhouse effect
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Carbon dioxide increase1957-2003
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• CO2 and CH4 Concentrations Past, Present and
Future
Compiled by K. Alverson
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• Svante Arrhenius 1859-1927
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• The carbon cycle
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Annual increase in GHG forcing1958-2003
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
The problem of climate change prediction
• How credible are climate change predictions?
• How will climate forcing change?
• What aspects of climate change is predictable?• What is unpredictable?
• Some important processes are not yet generally considered in climate models. This include feedback with the biosphere
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Climate feedback
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• The feedback problem
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• The feedback problem
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Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• The feedback problem
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Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
• Feedback results from different models
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16 January 2005Lennart Bengtsson
Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Delworth and Knutson, 2000
Monte-Carlo simulations with a coupled AO GCM: one out five simulations almost perfectly reproduced the observed global temperature variability.
obs exp 3
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Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Ensemble climate trends averaged fordifferent time-periods
(T/decade)
1-30 years 1-80 years
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Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
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Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Storm track density difference between scenario A1B ( aver. cond. 2071-2100 and ( aver. cond. 1961-1990) for the ECHAM 5 model. NH left and SH right.
Note the poleward change of the storm track at the SH
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Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
CoupledModelT63L31
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Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
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Celsius lecture 2005Uppsala Unversity
Concluding remarks
• Climate model can reproduce most features of the general circulation of the atmosphere( and to a lesser degree) of the oceans. Results generally improves with higher numerical accuracy (resolution)
• The treatment of small scale physical processes, turbulence, clouds, boundary layer fluxes etc. are parameterised ( only expressed in terms of the resolvable parameters) and thus to some extent subject to ad hoc assumptions. However climate change feedbacks are likely to be influenced by such assumptions
• Climate change predictions over larger areas and longer time-scales are dynamically robust (albeit model dependent).
• Regional climate change predictions of a few decades and shorter are most likely unpredictable, but an ensemble over many cases could indicate a change in the overall probability distribution of climate and weather events.