Reliability of regional climate model trends
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Reliability of regional climate model trends
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Institute of Physics (IOP)
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2013
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English
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A necessary condition for a good probabilistic forecast is that the forecast system is shown to be reliable: forecast probabilities should equal observed probabilities verified over a large number of cases. As climate change trends are now emerging from the natural variability, we can apply this concept to climate predictions and compute the reliability of simulated local and regional temperature and precipitation trends (1950–2011) in a recent multi-model ensemble of climate model simulations prepared for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fifth assessment report (AR5). With only a single verification time, the verification is over the spatial dimension. The local temperature trends appear to be reliable. However, when the global mean climate response is factored out, the ensemble is overconfident: the observed trend is outside the range of modelled trends in many more regions than would be expected by the model estimate of natural variability and model spread. Precipitation trends are overconfident for all trend definitions. This implies that for near-term local climate forecasts the CMIP5 ensemble cannot simply be used as a reliable probabilistic forecast.
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so we got all this information together we make something called a rank histograms and that's the flat-lined 5 per cent of the map here should be outside the law about in sample 5 % should be in the next 5 % etcetera etcetera and we see that instead we have 1 a 10 per cent that is new and actually close to 20 per cent of that is outside his cell but the other side when we only expect 5 per cent for our conclusion is that the logical patterns are very similar to that a small skills to regional scales where many people want to have climate for cost FIL ensembles overconfident there more regions where the observed trends in the mobile transmitter is greed they would expect from pure chance
