An analysis of the future climate of the Columbia River Basin helps create a better understanding of the differences between climate models.
Category: Climate Modeling
Large Storms May Help Snowpack
Future warming in the Northwest may be less severe during large precipitation events.
Featured Researcher OCCRI’s Li Sihan talks about citizen-driven science and her work on weather@home.
OCCRI’s Li Sihan talks about citizen science and her work on weather@home.
Improving Regional Climate Models with Citizen Science
This month we feature two articles resulting from OCCRI’s involvement in climateprediction.net.
Toward a Regional Earth System Model
Numerical models of the climate system continue to evolve and improve, incorporating more and more elements that influence climate. Two important directions of improvement are finer spatial resolution (being able to drill down to smaller and smaller areas), and representations of that most unpredictable aspect of climate: human behavior. These models are called “earth system…
New Accounting Method For Sources of Uncertainty
Climate scientists — including those of us at OCCRI and CIRC— use global climate models to understand the range of possible futures. Dozens of research groups produce hundreds of simulations, which may differ in their greenhouse-gas emission scenarios as well as their starting conditions for each simulation. Thus, interpretation can be challenging. Translating these simulations…
