A look at the ocean in the EC-Earth climate model

Sterl, Andreas; Bintanja, Richard; Brodeau, Laurent; Gleeson, Emily; Köenigk, Torben; Schmith, Torben; Semmler, Tido; Severijns, Camiel; Wyser, Klaus; Yang, Shuting

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“…For the analysis of sea-ice parameters (Kåll-berg et al 2004), we will in addition focus on the period from 1978 to 2001 as sub-slice of slice1 ("slice1ci") to cover the period of satellite observations. The Global Climate Model (GCM) used here is EC-Earth version 2.3 (Hazeleger et al 2012;Sterl et al 2012). A detailed description of the representation of Arctic climate in this model version is presented in Koenigk et al (2013).…”

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An interannual link between Arctic sea-ice cover and the North Atlantic Oscillation

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An interannual link between Arctic sea-ice cover and the North Atlantic Oscillation

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“…-ICHEC EC-EARTH: Irish Centre for High End Computing, EC-Earth (Sterl et al, 2012). (Watanabe et al, 2010).…”

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The influence of El Niño–Southern Oscillation regimes on eastern African vegetation and its future implications under the RCP8.5 warming scenario

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Abstract. The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the main driver of the interannual variability in eastern African rainfall, with a significant impact on vegetation and agriculture and dire consequences for food and social security. In this study, we identify and quantify the ENSO contribution to the eastern African rainfall variability to forecast future eastern African vegetation response to rainfall variability related to a predicted intensified ENSO. To differentiate the vegetation variability due to ENSO, we removed the ENSO signal from the climate data using empirical orthogonal teleconnection (EOT) analysis. Then, we simulated the ecosystem carbon and water fluxes under the historical climate without components related to ENSO teleconnections. We found ENSO-driven patterns in vegetation response and confirmed that EOT analysis can successfully produce coupled tropical Pacific sea surface temperature-eastern African rainfall teleconnection from observed datasets. We further simulated eastern African vegetation response under future climate change as it is projected by climate models and under future climate change combined with a predicted increased ENSO intensity. Our EOT analysis highlights that climate simulations are still not good at capturing rainfall variability due to ENSO, and as we show here the future vegetation would be different from what is simulated under these climate model outputs lacking accurate ENSO contribution. We simulated considerable differences in eastern African vegetation growth under the influence of an intensified ENSO regime which will bring further environmental stress to a region with a reduced capacity to adapt effects of global climate change and food security.

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“…The climate of the model in present-day and in the PI simulation is described in more details by Hazeleger et al (2012) and Sterl et al (2012) for the ocean. An overview of the Arctic climate of the twentieth and twenty-first century as simulated by EC-Earth in these CMIP5 simulation is presented by Koenigk et al (2013).…”

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Extinction of the northern oceanic deep convection in an ensemble of climate model simulations of the 20th and 21st centuries

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A look at the ocean in the EC-Earth climate model

Cited by 91 publications

References 45 publications

An interannual link between Arctic sea-ice cover and the North Atlantic Oscillation

An interannual link between Arctic sea-ice cover and the North Atlantic Oscillation

The influence of El Niño–Southern Oscillation regimes on eastern African vegetation and its future implications under the RCP8.5 warming scenario

Extinction of the northern oceanic deep convection in an ensemble of climate model simulations of the 20th and 21st centuries

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