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Climate Dynamics | 2012

Development of regional future climate change scenarios in South America using the Eta CPTEC/HadCM3 climate change projections: climatology and regional analyses for the Amazon, São Francisco and the Paraná River basins

Jose A. Marengo; Sin Chan Chou; Gillian Kay; Lincoln M. Alves; José F. Pesquero; Wagner R. Soares; Daniel C. Santos; André Lyra; Gustavo Sueiro; Richard A. Betts; Diego J. Chagas; Jorge L. Gomes; Josiane F. Bustamante; Priscila Tavares

The objective of this study is to assess the climate projections over South America using the Eta-CPTEC regional model driven by four members of an ensemble of the Met Office Hadley Centre Global Coupled climate model HadCM3. The global model ensemble was run over the twenty-first century according to the SRES A1B emissions scenario, but with each member having a different climate sensitivity. The four members selected to drive the Eta-CPTEC model span the sensitivity range in the global model ensemble. The Eta-CPTEC model nested in these lateral boundary conditions was configured with a 40-km grid size and was run over 1961–1990 to represent baseline climate, and 2011–2100 to simulate possible future changes. Results presented here focus on austral summer and winter climate of 2011–2040, 2041–2070 and 2071–2100 periods, for South America and for three major river basins in Brazil. Projections of changes in upper and low-level circulation and the mean sea level pressure (SLP) fields simulate a pattern of weakening of the tropical circulation and strengthening of the subtropical circulation, marked by intensification at the surface of the Chaco Low and the subtropical highs. Strong warming (4–6°C) of continental South America increases the temperature gradient between continental South America and the South Atlantic. This leads to stronger SLP gradients between continent and oceans, and to changes in moisture transport and rainfall. Large rainfall reductions are simulated in Amazonia and Northeast Brazil (reaching up to 40%), and rainfall increases around the northern coast of Peru and Ecuador and in southeastern South America, reaching up to 30% in northern Argentina. All changes are more intense after 2040. The Precipitation–Evaporation (P–E) difference in the A1B downscaled scenario suggest water deficits and river runoff reductions in the eastern Amazon and São Francisco Basin, making these regions susceptible to drier conditions and droughts in the future.


Archive | 2013

The Hydrological Cycle of the Mediterranean

Pinhas Alpert; Debbie Hemming; Fengjun Jin; Gillian Kay; Akio Kitoh; Annarita Mariotti

This chapter discusses results of current and future-projected water cycle components over the Mediterranean region. Results are presented from an ensemble of CMIP3 multi-model simulations (here after referred to as Mariotti) and from the Meteorological Research Institute’s (MRI) 20 km grid global climate model. Referred to as CMIP3 results are surprisingly close to MRI. The projected mean annual change in the rate of precipitation (P) across the region (for sea and land), is projected to decrease by the end of the 21st century by −11% and −10%, respectively, for the MRI and Mariotti runs. Projected changes in evaporation (E) are +9.3% (sea) and −3.6% (land) for JMA runs, compared to +7.2% (sea) and −8.1% (land) in Mariotti’s study. However, no significant difference of the projected change in P–E over the sea body is found between these two studies. E over the eastern Mediterranean was projected to be higher than the western Mediterranean, but the P decrease was projected to be lower. The net moisture budget, P–E, shows that the eastern Mediterranean is projected to become even drier than the western Mediterranean. The river model projects significant decreases in water inflow to the Mediterranean of about −36% by the end of the 21st century in the MRI run (excluding the Nile). The Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), which reflects the combined effects of precipitation and surface air temperature (Ts) changes, shows a progressive and substantial drying of Mediterranean land surface over this region since 1900 (−0.2 PDSI units/decade), consistent with a decrease in precipitation and an increase in Ts (not shown). The last section of this chapter reports on components of the hydrological cycle from five climate model projections for the Mediterranean region. Three of these models have an interactive Mediterranean Sea (MPI, ENEA, Meteo-France), and two are versions of the Met Office Hadley Centre regional model (HadRM3-MOSES2, HadRM3-MOSES1) with different land surface schemes. The focus of this section is upon changes in evapotranspiration, and how these changes could be important in controlling available renewable water resources (runoff). These r indicate that rainfall is projected to decline across large areas by over −20% in all of the models, although in the Meteo-France model the central part of the northern Mediterranean domain, ie. southern Italy and Greece, has areas of increase as well as decrease. In pockets of Turkey, the eastern Mediterranean, Italy and Spain, projections from the MPI, HadRM3-MOSES2, HadRM3-MOSES1 and ENEA models are for decreases in summer rainfall of −50% or more. Consistent with the global model projections, each of the five high-resolution models simulate increasing temperatures and decreasing evapotranspiration and precipitation for much of the Mediterranean region by the middle of this century. The strongest and most widespread reductions in precipitation are projected to occur in the spring and summer seasons, while reductions in evapotranspiration are greatest in summer.


Progress in Physical Geography | 2018

Recent progress in understanding climate thresholds: Ice sheets, the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, tropical forests and responses to ocean acidification

Peter Good; Jonathan L. Bamber; Kate Halladay; Anna B. Harper; Laura Jackson; Gillian Kay; Bart Kruijt; Jason Lowe; Oliver L. Phillips; Jeff Ridley; Meric A. Srokosz; Cm Turley; Phillip Williamson

This article reviews recent scientific progress, relating to four major systems that could exhibit threshold behaviour: ice sheets, the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), tropical forests and ecosystem responses to ocean acidification. The focus is on advances since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC AR5). The most significant developments in each component are identified by synthesizing input from multiple experts from each field. For ice sheets, some degree of irreversible loss (timescales of millennia) of part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) may have already begun, but the rate and eventual magnitude of this irreversible loss is uncertain. The observed AMOC overturning has decreased from 2004–2014, but it is unclear at this stage whether this is forced or is internal variability. New evidence from experimental and natural droughts has given greater confidence that tropical forests are adversely affected by drought. The ecological and socio-economic impacts of ocean acidification are expected to greatly increase over the range from today’s annual value of around 400, up to 650 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere (reached around 2070 under RCP8.5), with the rapid development of aragonite undersaturation at high latitudes affecting calcifying organisms. Tropical coral reefs are vulnerable to the interaction of ocean acidification and temperature rise, and the rapidity of those changes, with severe losses and risks to survival at 2 °C warming above pre-industrial levels. Across the four systems studied, however, quantitative evidence for a difference in risk between 1.5 and 2 °C warming above pre-industrial levels is limited.


Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 2017

Evaluating Climate Models with an African Lens

Rachel James; Richard Washington; Babatunde J. Abiodun; Gillian Kay; J. N. Mutemi; Wilfried Pokam; Neil C. G. Hart; Guleid Artan; Cath Senior

AbstractClimate models are becoming evermore complex and increasingly relied upon to inform climate change adaptation. Yet progress in model development is lagging behind in many of the regions tha...


Archive | 2013

Integration of the Climate Impact Assessments with Future Projections

C. M. Goodess; Maureen D. Agnew; Christos Giannakopoulos; Debbie Hemming; Skander Ben Salem; Marco Bindi; Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai; Letizia Congedi; Camilla Dibari; Hesham El-Askary; M. El-Fadel; Mohamed El-Raey; Roberto Ferrise; Dimitra Founda; José M. Grünzweig; Ali Harzallah; M. Hatzaki; Gillian Kay; Piero Lionello; César Mösso Aranda; Theib Oweis; Joan Pau Sierra; Basil Psiloglou; Marco Reale; Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla; Mohamed Senouci; Annalisa Tanzarella; Konstantinos V. Varotsos

Climate projections are essential in order to extend the case-study impacts and vulnerability assessments to encompass future climate change. Thus climate-model based indicators for the future (to 2050 and for the A1B emissions scenario) are presented for the climate and atmosphere theme (including indices of temperature and precipitation extreme events), together with biogeophysical and socioeconomic indicators encompassing the other case-study themes. For the latter, the specific examples presented here include peri-urban fires, air pollution, human health risks, energy demand, alien marine species and tourism (attractiveness and socio-economic consequences). The primary source of information about future climate is the set of global and regional model simulations performed as part of CIRCE. These have the main novel characteristic of incorporating a realistic representation of the Mediterranean Sea including coupling between sea and atmosphere. These projections are inevitably subject to uncertainties relating to unpredictability, model structural uncertainty and value uncertainty. These uncertainties are addressed by taking a multi-model approach, but problems remain, for example, due to a systematic cold bias in the CIRCE models. In the context of the case-study integrated assessments, there are also uncertainties ‘downstream’ of climate modeling and the construction of climate change projections – largely relating to the modeling of impacts. In addition, there are uncertainties associated with all socio-economic projections used in the case studies – such as population projections. Thus there are uncertainties inherent to all stages of the integrated assessments and it is important to consider all these aspects in the context of adaptation decision making.


Nature Geoscience | 2013

Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

Chris Huntingford; Przemyslaw Zelazowski; David Galbraith; Lina M. Mercado; Stephen Sitch; Rosie A. Fisher; Mark R. Lomas; Anthony P. Walker; Chris D. Jones; Ben B. B. Booth; Yadvinder Malhi; Debbie Hemming; Gillian Kay; Peter Good; Simon L. Lewis; Oliver L. Phillips; Owen K. Atkin; Jon Lloyd; Emanuel Gloor; Joana Zaragoza-Castells; Patrick Meir; Richard A. Betts; Phil P. Harris; Carlos A. Nobre; Jose A. Marengo; Peter M. Cox


Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 2006

African Climate Change: Taking the Shorter Route

Richard Washington; Gillian Kay; Michael A. Harrison; Declan Conway; Emily Black; Andrew J. Challinor; D. I. F. Grimes; Roger Jones; Andrew P. Morse; Martin C. Todd


Climate Dynamics | 2012

Downscaling of South America present climate driven by 4-member HadCM3 runs

Sin Chan Chou; Jose A. Marengo; André Lyra; Gustavo Sueiro; José F. Pesquero; Lincoln M. Alves; Gillian Kay; Richard A. Betts; Diego J. Chagas; Jorge L. Gomes; Josiane F. Bustamante; Priscila Tavares


Biogeosciences | 2013

Climate and land use change impacts on global terrestrial ecosystems and river flows in the HadGEM2-ES Earth system model using the representative concentration pathways

Richard A. Betts; Nicola Golding; Patrick Gonzalez; Jemma Gornall; R. Kahana; Gillian Kay; L. Mitchell; Andy Wiltshire


Sustainability | 2013

The Impact of Climate, CO 2 and Population on Regional Food and Water Resources in the 2050s

Andrew J. Wiltshire; Gillian Kay; Jemma Gornall; Richard A. Betts

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Jose A. Marengo

National Institute for Space Research

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André Lyra

National Institute for Space Research

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Diego J. Chagas

National Institute for Space Research

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Gustavo Sueiro

National Institute for Space Research

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