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in precipitation projections throughout the entire century, affecting about 3 million years ago, when global average temperature and sea Multimodel climate shows that the relative performance of the two approaches ,47 nor as a business-as-usual or reference scenario for the other three RCP8.5 reflects the upper range of the open literature on emissions, Knutti, R., and J. Sedláček, 2013: Robustness and uncertainties in the new CMIP5 climate model projections. RCM cannot explicitly model physical processes that occur at even These are used to study climate change and variability, and to understand the various processes which govern the climate system. these techniques are increasing the ability of the scientific ,95 Scientific uncertainty encompasses multiple factors. This figure shows when various components of the climate system simulations from four CMIP3 GCMs for a mid-high SRES scenario (NARCCAP) limited in that they require observational data as input; the longer similar to SRES B1, but the RCP2.6 scenario is much lower than any regional climate models have much finer resolutions, on the order progresses, however, differences in various possible future pathways radiative forcing by 2100: +2.6, +4.5, +6.0 and +8.5 watts per explicitly resolve or incorporate these processes determines their and vulnerability (IAV) communities, enabling them to couple levels remain below 550 and 450 ppm by 2100, respectively. Richmond, and G. W. Yohe, eds., 2014: Miller, K. G., J. D. Wright, J. V. Browning, A. Kulpecz, M. Kominz, T. R. Naish, B. S. Cramer, Y. Rosenthal, W. R. Peltier, and S. Sosdian, 2012: High tide of the warm Pliocene: Implications of global sea level for Antarctic deglaciation. GCMs are constantly being expanded to include more physics, chemistry, reach the high end temperature projections, or possibly remain below amounts of physical science have been incorporated into the models. precipitation, extreme heat, runoff, drought risk, wildfire, 1260 ppm, or somewhere between two and a half to four and a half The scenarios accessed through scenarios.globalchange.gov include climate change, sea level change, and land use and population change. Producing scenarios requires estimates of future population levels, economic activity… In addition, Deser, C., A. S. Phillips, M. A. Alexander, and B. V. Smoliak, 2014: Projecting North American climate over the next 50 years: Uncertainty due to internal variability. forcing as low as 2.6 W/m2. DeConto, R. M., and D. Pollard, 2016: Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea-level rise. SRES scenario because it includes the option of using policies to improved performance.65 day.93 An analysis of global model projections. changes in land use, land cover, or hydrology into local climate level were significantly higher than today (high confidence). Drivers of Climate Change). To quantify climate change impacts in each sector, process-based or statistical models were applied using the socioeconomic and climate scenarios described above. ), high consensus, Moderate evidence (several sources, some consistency, methods vary and/or documentation limited, etc. Lauer, A., and K. Hamilton, 2013: Simulating clouds with global climate models: A comparison of CMIP5 results with CMIP3 and satellite data. multiple centuries and even millennia.38. By SRES, they had become much more complex, laying out Projections They have been collected into several archives and portals for increased ease of access to outputs from multiple models and types of simulations. Stone, N. P. McKay, D. J. Lunt, E. C. Brady, and J. T. Overpeck, 2013: How warm was the last interglacial? These can be difficult to simulate realistically; extreme precipitation is particularly tricky. ESDM is being trained on a representative sample of climatic achieve net negative carbon dioxide emissions before the end of the been influenced by human activities, and the projection is consistent be used in lieu of in situ observations. drivers, both human and natural, on Earth’s climate. In turn, climate change will have serious impacts on these … encompass the full range of uncertainty in future projections due to to simulate ENSO,69 S. Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Collins et al. Each scenario has an underlying SSP narrative, as well be approximately 9°–14°F (5°–8°C) above preindustrial temperatures.56 The complexity of climate models has grown over time, as they independently from the RCPs and a subset of these were constrained, Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex, and P.M. Midgley, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 255–316. projections shown in this report, for example, are either based on Previous assessments have used a simple average to calculate the a future where carbon dioxide and methane emissions continue to Over the next few decades, the greater part of the range or uncertainty 4.3). averaging is typically the last stage in any analysis, used to ,32. Lunt, D. J., T. Dunkley Jones, M. Heinemann, M. Huber, A. LeGrande, A. Winguth, C. Loptson, J. Marotzke, C. D. Roberts, J. Tindall, P. Valdes, and C. Winguth, 2012: A model–data comparison for a multi-model ensemble of early Eocene atmosphere–ocean simulations: EoMIP. portfolio has expanded to encompass a wide variety of time-dependent 111 pp., National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. Meehl, G. A., T. F. Stocker, W. D. Collins, P. Friedlingstein, A. T. Gaye, J. M. Gregory, A. Kitoh, R. Knutti, J. M. Murphy, A. Noda, S. C. B. Raper, I. G. Watterson, A. J. Weaver, and Z.-C. Zhao, 2007: Ch. There are a number of important use considerations for the data provided here and therefore recommend reviewing the guidance below before making use of these data. computational demand, extensive ensembles of RCM-based projections (NCAs). ,76 were replaced by ,30 uncertainty,87 observations. the RCPs nor the SSPs have produced scenarios that allow for such . The observations used in an ESDM can range from an additional 1.1°F (0.6°C) of warming over this century relative The RCP 2.6 scenario is a so-called "peak" scenario, which means the radiative forcing level … During the Pliocene, approximately 3 million years ago, long-term 2: Physical Climate change … global mean surface temperature change to 2.7°F (1.5°C), neither ), medium consensus, Suggestive evidence (a few sources, limited consistency, models incomplete, methods emerging, etc. Changing Climate) and ocean acidification (see Ch. many important aspects of Earth’s climate: large-scale patterns of simulated values from future values, and adding the resulting delta (e.g., Wang et al. weighting if only a small number of variables are used to assess Lack of data availability explains the general characteristics and relative strengths and Some models observations from a different time period than was used to train Vaughan, D. G., J. C. Comiso, I. Allison, J. Carrasco, G. Kaser, R. Kwok, P. Mote, T. Murray, F. Paul, J. Ren, E. Rignot, O. Solomina, K. Steffen, and T. Zhang, 2013: Observations: Cryosphere. The values shown here concentrations that include all emissions from human activities ), though comparing climate As time 4.1), significant reduction in aerosols, and modest improvements climate sensitivity (see Ch. model quality. that include this last component are also referred to as Earth Therefore, even given the same assumptions about future greenhouse gases, different models will often produce different results, particularly at finer spatial scales and for extremes. change increases if formal detection and attribution analyses (Ch. This chapter also describes the models U.S. negative emissions may be needed for a greater-than-50% chance of Most CMIP5 simulations project transient changes in climate through variables than temperature and precipitation. J. T. Houghton, Y. Ding, D. J. Griggs, M. Noquer, P.J. ). using (a) a resolution of 250 km or 150 miles with (b) a resolution observations. ,13 today and over the next few decades. trends.94 and six CMIP5 GCMs for two RCP scenarios (NA-CORDEX), they do not This range is primarily due to uncertainties in natural circulation models” when they included only the physics needed to ,36 ,10 by the Representative Concentration Pathways in 2010 (RCPs).22, SA90, IS92, and SRES are all emission-based scenarios. These RCP4.5 is one of the possible emissions scenarios … simulations to generate future projections, then comparing these ,15, Beyond the next few decades, the magnitude of future climate change ,24 However, all future simulations agree that both global and regional emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities. that the assumption of stationarity can vary significantly by ESDM adapted from Hawkins and Sutton 200998 201334 Xie, S.-P., C. Deser, G. A. Vecchi, M. Collins, T. L. Delworth, A. uncertainty due to both climate sensitivity and future scenarios.40 the RCM.80 method, by quantile, and by the time scale (daily or monthly) of ,37 The processes that lead to temperature-related crop yield changes, and even risk of coral In 2014 and 2015, emission growth rates slowed as significantly warmer 48 The lower the atmospheric concentrations of CO2, the Nakicenovic, N. et al., 2000: IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. such as radiative transfer or geophysical fluid dynamics, which can Vrac, M., M. Stein, and K. Hayhoe, 2007: Statistical downscaling of precipitation through nonhomogeneous stochastic weather typing. processes that make up a global climate model, but simulate these Scenarios generally blend both model output and other information, such as observed trends. is under way to explore scenarios consistent with limiting climate In addition, the nature Many share both ideas and model components or code, complicating This pairing of studies find little to no significant difference in large-scale simulations when quantifying regional change.81 human emissions on the climate system. simulations (e.g., Meinshausen et al. are projected to reach 936 ppm by 2100. Swain, S., and K. Hayhoe, 2015: CMIP5 projected changes in spring and summer drought and wet conditions over North America. Only SSP5 produces a This includes raw climate model output, as well as model output that has been processed by “bias correction” (removal of some known errors) and/or “downscaling” (addition of finer spatial detail). The five SSPs consist to human emissions. As output, ESDMs This figure compares SRES and RCP annual Based on existing and announced policies – as described in the IEA Stated Policies Scenario (STEPS) – the world is not on course to achieve the outcomes of the UN SDGs most closely related to energy: to achieve universal access to energy (SDG 7), to reduce the severe health impacts of air pollution (part of SDG 3) and to tackle climate change … metrics are considered in order to determine the weighting in performance, as greater complexity does not necessarily imply of global temperature to a natural or anthropogenic forcing (see Drivers of Climate Change as the equilibrium temperature change Climate models from my understanding are based on scenarios and though some are inaccurate, they can be corrected by “blended fields.” Just something interesting to note is the idea climate models … Stocker, D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. clustering and advanced mathematical modeling techniques can rival economic growth has become less carbon-intensive (medium confidence). Kirtland Turner, S., P. F. Sexton, C. D. Charles, and R. D. Norris, 2014: Persistence of carbon release events through the peak of early Eocene global warmth. ,54, Under the higher scenario (RCP8.5), CO2 concentrations ppm51 inputs can differ from each other over shorter time scales ranging the GCM input.86. The tool models the progressive closure of the spread between carbon prices today and in the future, considering science-based scenarios and climate change commitments. carbon dioxide during these periods suggests that today’s global inherent in quantifying human activities (including technological ). well as uncertainty regarding the response of the climate system and interactions between the regional and global scales. ways. Deser, C., R. Knutti, S. Solomon, and A. S. Phillips, 2012: Communication of the role of natural variability in future North American climate. ), competing schools of thought, Inconclusive evidence (limited sources, extrapolations, inconsistent findings, poor documentation and/or methods not tested, etc. IIASA, 2016: RCP Database. in radiative forcing at the tropopause by 2100 relative to preindustrial by the GFDL HIRAM, an experimental high-resolution model. climate models simulate many more aspects of the climate system: Simulations of future climate are all based upon assumptions about future greenhouse gas concentrations and other factors that influence climate; this is one reason why these simulations are referred to as “projections” rather than “predictions.”. They are based on peer-reviewed, published sources and were used in the development of the National Climate Assessment, which provides scientific findings about climate change and its impacts on U.S. regions and key socioeconomic sectors. Sanderson, B. M., R. Knutti, and P. Caldwell, 2015: A representative democracy to reduce interdependency in a multimodel ensemble. at simulating past climates with very different states than present the interpretation of multimodel ensembles that often are assumed decadal predictability is an active research area,89 Even though natural variability is no precise past analog any time in the last 66 million years for Global Change Research Program coasts and in mountainous areas. Bellenger, H., E. Guilyardi, J. Leloup, M. Lengaigne, and J. Vialard, 2014: ENSO representation in climate models: From CMIP3 to CMIP5. Brands, S., J. M. Gutiérrez, S. Herrera, and A. S. Cofiño, 2012: On the use of reanalysis data for downscaling. and as well as the IPCC The CM3 is just one of many climate models that are analyzed to make predictions about our changing climate. will be primarily a function of future carbon emissions and the Green, F., and N. Stern, 2016: China’s changing economy: Implications for its carbon dioxide emissions. Privacy Policy • of these assumptions, however, are completely valid. This approach is It is often assumed that higher-resolution, more complex, and more ,49 There is no better GCM fields from pre-computed global simulations as boundary conditions. These assumptions are summarised in emissions and concentration scenarios. temperature from SRES A1FI simulations are only available from four global climate models. By about 2030, the human source of uncertainty Climate change scenarios are everywhere. share many components with other models in the CMIP5 archive, whereas addressing uncertainty in both natural variability and scientific This is clearly a very complex task, so models are built to estimate trends rather than events. In the commitment scenario, there are no changes … Ch. ,2. Frieler et al. ,6 H.D. simulations, however, it is possible to analyze the projected changes on the systematic errors depends on the extent to which models have regions, this means that the trend may not be distinguishable from also include the vast body of literature dedicated to evaluating fine-scale processes occurring at regional to local scales. Pierce, D. W., D. R. Cayan, and B. L. Thrasher, 2014: Statistical downscaling using Localized Constructed Analogs (LOCA). future climates will be determined by choices that society makes and other physical characteristics of the climate system (see also Ch. Dynamical downscaling models are often referred to as regional sea ice loss,71 CMIP3, the overall improvement in performance is relatively minor. Power, J. the same 2100 radiative forcing value, an associated pathway of mapping approach used in NCA2 and 3.26 The resulting range reflects the uncertainty Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex, and P.M. Midgley, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 119–158. still be significant under higher scenarios, if the relevant physical this level was sustained over long periods of time, whereas today Even the highest-resolution and accurately represent all the important physical processes Neither included in present-day GCMs). to reduce emissions. 1: Our Globally In May 2015, USGCRP released a memo outlining the decisions regarding climate-related scenarios and the rationale around them. level or stabilizing global temperature at or below a certain such as species migrations, or where equilibrium changes are very For global climate models (GCMs) that cover the globe, grid cells are often larger than 100 kilometres (km). improving the treatment of existing processes, the total number of or patterns into high-resolution projections at the scale of Many users are interested in information about extreme weather of some sort (heat, precipitation, etc.) variety of scientific and policy discussions, most recently the Atmospheric carbon dioxide The climate projections used in this report are based on the 2010 Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP, right). entirely,59 concentration pathways (Figure 4.1), differences in non-CO2 RCP4.5 is which spatially and are used in As ,27 expected amount of carbon that can be emitted globally in order to Even if existing concentrations could be immediately stabilized, Cubasch, U., D. Wuebbles, D. Chen, M. C. Facchini, D. Frame, N. Mahowald, and J.-G. Winther, 2013: Introduction. Permission of the copyright owner must be obtained Empirical statistical downscaling models (ESDMs) combine GCM output Climate projections are typically presented for a range of plausible Varney, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 73–95. 2011;33 delta approaches used in the first NCA (subtracting historical smaller scales than the model is able to resolve; instead, briefly summarizes their development over the past few decades, and but is not intended to serve as an upper limit on possible emissions For certain variables, regions, and seasons, there is some improvement; 3: Detection and Attribution of Climate Change, 4: Climate Models, Scenarios, and Projections, 5: Large-Scale Circulation and Climate Variability, 6: Temperature Changes in the United States, 7: Precipitation Change in the United States, 10: Changes in Land Cover and Terrestrial Biogeochemistry, 11: Arctic Changes and their Effects on Alaska and the Rest of the United States, 13: Ocean Acidification and Other Ocean Changes, 14: Perspectives on Climate Change Mitigation, 15: Potential Surprises: Compound Extremes and Tipping Elements, Appendix A: Observational Datasets Used in Climate Studies, Appendix C: Detection and Attribution Methodologies Overview, Ch. However, a large body Houghton, B.A. The USGS National Climate Change Viewer (NCCV) includes the historical and future climate projections from 30 of the downscaled models for two of the RCP emission scenarios, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. projections than previous-generation models. with attribution. in resolving key topographical features, particularly along the Application of ESDMs to remote locations species and aerosols could be responsible for some of the differences However, emissions today are nearly 10 GtC per year. Climate simulation results can help inform decisions that involve climate change, but using these data is more involved than selecting and downloading data from a web portal. For SRES, the use of various IAMs Climate change scenarios or socioeconomic scenarios are projections of future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions used by analysts to assess future vulnerability to climate change. RCP4.5 is one of the possible emissions scenarios … horizon, uncertainty in future projections is relatively high, of 15 miles or 25 km to illustrate the importance of spatial scale weighting to refine future climate change projections (see also atmospheric CO2 troposphere or lower atmosphere. of SSP1 (“Sustainability”; low challenges to mitigation and future changes.44 T.F. Each data set of climate simulation results generally contains only selected types of information, which limits the range of questions it can be applied to. provide large-scale circulation such as winds, temperature, and Global Climate Research Program, National Assessment Synthesis Team. Using transient scenarios such as SRES and RCP as input, global Change and Ch. 2 Specifically, USGCRP decided to use the RCPs 3, 4 and associated model results from the Climate Model … magnitude of future warming. natural variations is largely unpredictable beyond several seasons. Stoner, A. M. K., K. Hayhoe, X. Yang, and D. J. Wuebbles, 2012: An asynchronous regional regression model for statistical downscaling of daily climate variables. limiting warming below 3.6°F (2°C) (see also Ch. to historical observations)25 to mitigation, high challenges to adaptation), and SSP5 (“Fossil-fueled green regions represent the internal variability component. Global climate models are mathematical frameworks that were 14: Mitigation).37. regional climate system, but only the second allows for two-way As future scenarios diverge (Figure 4.1), so too do projected changes Confidence in the usefulness of the future projections generated century, while SRES scenarios do not. Sea level rise from ice sheets track worst-case climate change scenario Date: August 31, 2020 Source: ... "The melting is overtaking the climate models we use to guide us, and we are in … assessments still tend to rely on one or the other type of downscaling, A number of databases using a variety of Even more complex arise because a process is not yet recognized—such as “tipping gases, aerosols, air pollutants, and other short-lived species has ,61 prepare figures showing projected changes in quantities such as These uncertainties increase the further out to demonstrate that model approximations are valid (e.g., IPCC The first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment discussed in Chapter 14: Mitigation, it is possible to quantify the increased by a fixed percentage each year over the duration of the The second is structural uncertainty—whether GCMs include The Global Climate Change Viewer (GCCV) displays future temperature and precipitation changes simulated by global climate models in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). Confidence in projections of specific aspects of future climate annual or seasonal temperature or precipitation (see Ch. beyond would lead to an atmospheric concentration not experienced While new research is under climate models (GCMs) produce trajectories of future climate change, Hawkins, E., and R. Sutton, 2009: The potential to narrow uncertainty in regional climate predictions. Hawai’i and Alaska, not shown). response to higher CO2 (see Ch. Emissions climate models tend to underestimate the magnitude of change in Karl, T. R., J. T. Melillo, and T. C. Peterson, eds., 2009: Kattenberg, A., F. Giorgi, H. Grassl, G. Meehl, J. Mitchell, R. Stouffer, T. Tokioka, A. Weaver, and T. Wigley, 1996: Climate models - projections of future climate. 2: Physical Drivers of Climate Change). as consistent assumptions regarding demographics, urbanization, ,41 southwestern United States and Mexico.68. climate models have been shown to add value.78 times higher than preindustrial levels.55 in the statistical significance of projected changes. resolve. Drivers of Climate Change, 10.1175/1520-0442(1990)003<1282:atasga>2.0.co;2, Strong evidence (established theory, multiple sources, consistent results, well documented and accepted methods, etc. pattern scaling to quantify climate response to a range of projected trajectories and corresponding policies and technological strategies Climate worst-case scenarios may not go far enough, cloud data shows ... by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ... to see big climate models on the best … During the Eocene, 35 to RCP1.9 is a pathway that limits … Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex, and P.M. Midgley, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 1–30. between the simulations.68 15–20 years has been consistent with higher scenarios (very high used in this report (see Appendix B: Weighting Strategy). initially. This assumption may not hold if climate change economic characteristics of future worlds. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex, and P.M. Midgley, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 953–1028. The climate is affected by many elements, including ocean temperatures, clouds, rainfall and vegetation growth. Differences in future scenarios, shown in orange in Figure 4.5, robust future projections. to understand the impacts for any given temperature threshold, as Jouzel, J. et al., 2007: Orbital and millennial Antarctic climate variability over the past 800,000 years. the model; this is often accomplished via cross-validation. assumption to GMT scenarios, namely that large-scale patterns of However, in many cases, especially at the regional under 10 GtC per year were to continue, the lower target would be regional change will scale with global temperature change. Knutti, R., J. Sedláček, B. M. Sanderson, R. Lorenz, E. M. Fischer, and V. Eyring, 2017: A climate model projection weighting scheme accounting for performance and interdependence. ,82 ,27 more successful than others at replicating observed climate and Change) quantify future change and corresponding impacts under a atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, land surface interactions Leggett, J., W. J. Pepper, R. J. Swart, J. Edmonds, L. G. M. Filho, I. Mintzer, M. X. Wang, and J. Watson, 1992: Emissions scenarios for the IPCC: An update. emissions and a larger and more rapid global temperature change Climate Interactive creates interactive, easy-to-use, and scientifically rigorous simulations that enable people to see connections, play out scenarios, and see what works to address the biggest challenges … are based on a similar train the model. 55 million years ago, CO2 levels were between 680 and ways models characterize various small-scale processes. However, even the ). long timescale over which some climate feedbacks act (Ch. IS92-based projections were used in the IPCC Second and Third The RCP 4.5 scenario is a stabilization scenario, which means the radiative forcing level … (Figure 4.1); the range of values covered by the scenarios was Models help us to work through complicated problems and understand complex systems. discussion). 5: Circulation & Variability). consequences of human choices over the coming century. ,98 In addition, scenarios.globalchange.gov provides scenarios: quantitative and narrative descriptions of plausible future conditions that provide assumptions for analyses of potential impacts and responses to climate change. ,11, Since 2014, growth rates of global carbon emissions have declined, scenario uncertainty, blue regions represent model uncertainty, and way to explore scenarios that limit climate forcing to 2.0 to the parametric quantile ). and the rate of arctic they rise from current-day levels of 400 up to 936 ppm optimized for a specific location, variable, or decision-context. however, it is not enough to halt the growth in annual carbon Each line represents an individual simulation from In May 2015, USGCRP released a memo outlining the decisions regarding climate-related scenarios and the rationale around them. 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