Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

PI Palmer, CM Wainwright, B Dong… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Eastern Africa exhibits bimodal rainfall consisting of long rains (March–May) and short rains
(October–December), changes in which have profound socioeconomic and environmental …

An overview of interactions and feedbacks between ice sheets and the Earth system

J Fyke, O Sergienko, M Löfverström… - Reviews of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Ice sheet response to forced changes—such as that from anthropogenic climate forcing—is
closely regulated by two‐way interactions with other components of the Earth system. These …

Statistical downscaling of rainfall changes in Hawai 'i based on the CMIP5 global model projections

OE Timm, TW Giambelluca… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Seasonal mean rainfall projections for Hawai 'i are given based on statistical downscaling of
the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) global model results for …

On inclusion of water resource management in Earth system models–Part 2: Representation of water supply and allocation and opportunities for improved modeling

A Nazemi, HS Wheater - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2015 - hess.copernicus.org
Human water use has significantly increased during the recent past. Water withdrawals from
surface and groundwater sources have altered terrestrial discharge and storage, with large …

Watershed system model: The essentials to model complex human‐nature system at the river basin scale

X Li, G Cheng, H Lin, X Cai, M Fang… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Watershed system models are urgently needed to understand complex watershed systems
and to support integrated river basin management. Early watershed modeling efforts …

Performance assessment of six bias correction methods using observed and RCM data at upper Awash basin, Oromia, Ethiopia

BC Tumsa - Journal of Water and Climate Change, 2022 - iwaponline.com
Selecting a suitable bias correction method is important to provide reliable inputs for
evaluation of climate change impact. Their influence was studied by comparing three …

[LLIBRE][B] Downscaling techniques for high-resolution climate projections: From global change to local impacts

R Kotamarthi, K Hayhoe, D Wuebbles, LO Mearns… - 2021 - books.google.com
Downscaling is a widely used technique for translating information from large-scale climate
models to the spatial and temporal scales needed to assess local and regional climate …

Inconsistent strategies to spin up models in CMIP5: Implications for ocean biogeochemical model performance assessment

R Séférian, M Gehlen, L Bopp… - Geoscientific Model …, 2016 - gmd.copernicus.org
During the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) substantial
efforts were made to systematically assess the skill of Earth system models. One goal was to …

Climate projections of meteotsunami hazards

C Denamiel, D Belušić, P Zemunik… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Global climate models, indispensable for projecting the human-driven climate change, have
been improving for decades and are nowadays capable of reproducing multiple processes …

Why simpler computer simulation models can be epistemically better for informing decisions

C Helgeson, V Srikrishnan, K Keller… - Philosophy of …, 2021 - cambridge.org
For computer simulation models to usefully inform climate risk management, uncertainties in
model projections must be explored and characterized. Because doing so requires running …