North American drought: Reconstructions, causes, and consequences

ER Cook, R Seager, MA Cane, DW Stahle - Earth-Science Reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
Severe drought is the greatest recurring natural disaster to strike North America. A
remarkable network of centuries-long annual tree-ring chronologies has now allowed for the …

Understanding El Niño in ocean–atmosphere general circulation models: Progress and challenges

E Guilyardi, A Wittenberg, A Fedorov… - Bulletin of the …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Determining how El Niño and its impacts may change over the next 10 to 100 years remains
a difficult scientific challenge. Ocean-atmosphere coupled general circulation models …

Evaluation of climate models

G Flato, J Marotzke, B Abiodun, P Braconnot… - Climate change 2013 …, 2014 - pure.mpg.de
Climate models have continued to be developed and improved since the AR4, and many
models have been extended into Earth System models by including the representation of …

Regional climate trends and scenarios for the US National Climate Assessment: Part 2. Climate of the Southeast US

KE Kunkel, LE Stevens, SE Stevens, L Sun, E Janssen… - 2013 - repository.library.noaa.gov
This document has two main sections: one on historical conditions and trends, and the other
on future conditions as simulated by climate models. The historical section concentrates on …

[PDF][PDF] Climate models and their evaluation

DA Randall, RA Wood, S Bony, R Colman… - Climate change 2007 …, 2007 - pure.mpg.de
This chapter assesses the capacity of the global climate models used elsewhere in this
report for projecting future climate change. Confidence in model estimates of future climate …

Amazonian forest dieback under climate-carbon cycle projections for the 21st century

PM Cox, RA Betts, M Collins, PP Harris… - Theoretical and applied …, 2004 - Springer
The first GCM climate change projections to include dynamic vegetation and an interactive
carbon cycle produced a very significant amplification of global warming over the 21st …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of convection on ENSO: From a delayed oscillator to a series of events

RB Neale, JH Richter, M Jochum - Journal of climate, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The NCAR Community Climate System Model, version 3 (CCSM3) exhibits
persistent errors in its simulation of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) mode of …

Current status of ENSO prediction skill in coupled ocean–atmosphere models

EK **, JL Kinter, B Wang, CK Park, IS Kang… - Climate Dynamics, 2008 - Springer
The overall skill of ENSO prediction in retrospective forecasts made with ten different
coupled GCMs is investigated. The coupled GCM datasets of the APCC/CliPAS and …

[PDF][PDF] Consensus between GCM climate change projections with empirical downscaling: precipitation downscaling over South Africa

BC Hewitson, RG Crane - International Journal of Climatology: A Journal …, 2006 - Citeseer
This paper discusses issues that surround the development of empirical downscaling
techniques as context for presenting a new approach based on self-organizing maps …

[HTML][HTML] Detection and attribution of twentieth-century northern and southern African rainfall change

M Hoerling, J Hurrell, J Eischeid, A Phillips - Journal of climate, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
Rayner, NA, DE Parker, EB Horton, CK Folland, LV Alexander, DP Rowell, EC Kent, and A.
Kaplan, 2003: Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air …