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A multidisciplinary perspective on climate model evaluation for Antarctica
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posted on 2023-05-18, 20:34 authored by Bracegirdle, TJ, Bertler, NAN, Carleton, AM, Ding, Q, Fogwill, CJ, Fyfe, JC, Hellmer, HH, Karpechko, AY, Kusahara, K, Larour, E, Mayewski, PA, Meier, WN, Polvani, LM, Russell, JL, Stevenson, SL, Turner, J, van Wessem, JM, van de Berg, WJ, Wainer, IOver the twenty-first century, large changes in climate are projected for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean under scenarios of greenhouse gas increase and stratospheric ozone recovery. These changes would potentially have important environmental and societal implications, affecting, for example, sea level change, global ocean heat and carbon uptake, and ecosystem function. However, our ability to make precise estimates of these impacts is hampered by uncertainties in state-of-the-art climate models. Model evaluation is a key step in reducing this model uncertainty by helping to identify biases and shortcomings common to the current generation of models and highlighting priorities for future model development. The evaluation of climate models’ representation of Antarctic climate from the perspective of long-term twenty-first-century climate change was the subject of a workshop organized by Antarctic Climate 21 (AntClim21), one of six current scientific research programs of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR; see www.scar.org/srp/antclim21).
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Publication title
American Meteorological Society. BulletinVolume
97Pagination
ES23-ES26ISSN
0003-0007Department/School
Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesPublisher
Amer Meteorological SocPlace of publication
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