Search Results - "Booth, Ben B"

Aerosols implicated as a prime driver of twentieth-century North Atlantic climate variability by Booth, Ben B. B., Dunstone, Nick J., Halloran, Paul R., Andrews, Timothy, Bellouin, Nicolas

“…A state-of-the-art climate model shows that radiative forcing due to anthropogenic and volcanic aerosols explains the variability in sea surface temperature of…”
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Reconciling Past and Future Rainfall Trends over East Africa by Rowell, David P., Booth, Ben B. B., Nicholson, Sharon E., Good, Peter

“…The “long rains” season of East Africa has recently experienced a series of devastating droughts, whereas the majority of climate models predict increasing…”
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The Multidecadal Atlantic SST—Sahel Rainfall Teleconnection in CMIP5 Simulations by Martin, Elinor R., Thorncroft, Chris, Booth, Ben B. B.

“…This study uses models from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) to evaluate and investigate Sahel rainfall multidecadal variability…”
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Sensitivity of tropical carbon to climate change constrained by carbon dioxide variability by Cox, Peter M., Pearson, David, Booth, Ben B., Friedlingstein, Pierre, Huntingford, Chris, Jones, Chris D., Luke, Catherine M.

“…A linear relationship between the sensitivity of tropical land carbon storage to warming and the sensitivity of the annual growth rate of atmospheric CO 2 to…”
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Climate model errors, feedbacks and forcings: a comparison of perturbed physics and multi-model ensembles by Collins, Matthew, Booth, Ben B. B, Bhaskaran, B, Harris, Glen R, Murphy, James M, Sexton, David M. H, Webb, Mark J

“…Ensembles of climate model simulations are required for input into probabilistic assessments of the risk of future climate change in which uncertainties are…”
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Interhemispheric Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Tropical Precipitation Shifts during the Late Twentieth Century by Allen, Robert J., Evan, Amato T., Booth, Ben B. B.

“…Through the latter half of the twentieth century, meridional shifts in tropical precipitation have been associated with severe droughts. Although linked to a…”
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Role of volcanic and anthropogenic aerosols in the recent global surface warming slowdown by Smith, Doug M., Booth, Ben B. B., Dunstone, Nick J., Eade, Rosie, Hermanson, Leon, Jones, Gareth S., Scaife, Adam A., Sheen, Katy L., Thompson, Vikki

“…The global warming slowdown has been attributed to the negative phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Modelling work simulates this negative phase in…”
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Selecting Ensemble Members to Provide Regional Climate Change Information by McSweeney, Carol F., Jones, Richard G., Booth, Ben B. B.

“…Climate model ensembles, such as the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, phase 3 (CMIP3), are used to characterize broadscale ranges of projected regional…”
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Aerosol and physical atmosphere model parameters are both important sources of uncertainty in aerosol ERF by Regayre, Leighton A, Johnson, Jill S, Yoshioka, Masaru, Pringle, Kirsty J, Sexton, David M. H, Booth, Ben B. B, Lee, Lindsay A, Bellouin, Nicolas, Carslaw, Kenneth S

“…Changes in aerosols cause a change in net top-of-the-atmosphere (ToA) short-wave and long-wave radiative fluxes; rapid adjustments in clouds, water vapour and…”
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Effective radiative forcing from historical land use change by Andrews, Timothy, Betts, Richard A., Booth, Ben B. B., Jones, Chris D., Jones, Gareth S.

“…The effective radiative forcing (ERF) from the biogeophysical effects of historical land use change is quantified using the atmospheric component of the Met…”
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Sensitivity of Twentieth-Century Sahel Rainfall to Sulfate Aerosol and CO₂ Forcing by Ackerley, Duncan, Booth, Ben B. B., Knight, Sylvia H. E., Highwood, Eleanor J., Frame, David J., Allen, Myles R., Rowell, David P.

“…A full understanding of the causes of the severe drought seen in the Sahel in the latter part of the twentieth-century remains elusive some 25 yr after the…”
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Aerosol‐Forced AMOC Changes in CMIP6 Historical Simulations by Menary, Matthew B., Robson, Jon, Allan, Richard P., Booth, Ben B. B., Cassou, Christophe, Gastineau, Guillaume, Gregory, Jonathan, Hodson, Dan, Jones, Colin, Mignot, Juliette, Ringer, Mark, Sutton, Rowan, Wilcox, Laura, Zhang, Rong

“…The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) has been, and will continue to be, a key factor in the modulation of climate change both locally and…”
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A perturbed parameter ensemble of HadGEM3-GC3.05 coupled model projections: part 1: selecting the parameter combinations by Sexton, David M. H., McSweeney, Carol F., Rostron, John W., Yamazaki, Kuniko, Booth, Ben B. B., Murphy, James M., Regayre, Leighton, Johnson, Jill S., Karmalkar, Ambarish V.

“…This is the first of two papers that describe the generation of a 25-member perturbed parameter ensemble (PPE) of high-resolution, global coupled simulations…”
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Towards quantifying uncertainty in transient climate change by COLLINS, Matthew, BOOTH, Ben B. B, HARRIS, Glen R, MURPHY, James M, SEXTON, David M. H, WEBB, Mark J

“…Ensembles of coupled atmosphere-ocean global circulation model simulations are required to make probabilistic predictions of future climate change. "Perturbed…”
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The importance of comprehensive parameter sampling and multiple observations for robust constraint of aerosol radiative forcing by Johnson, Jill S, Regayre, Leighton A, Yoshioka, Masaru, Pringle, Kirsty J, Lee, Lindsay A, Sexton, David M. H, Rostron, John W, Booth, Ben B. B, Carslaw, Kenneth S

“…Observational constraint of simulated aerosol and cloud properties is an essential part of building trustworthy climate models for calculating aerosol…”
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Performance-based sub-selection of CMIP6 models for impact assessments in Europe by Palmer, Tamzin E, McSweeney, Carol F, Booth, Ben B. B, Priestley, Matthew D. K, Davini, Paolo, Brunner, Lukas, Borchert, Leonard, Menary, Matthew B

“…We have created a performance-based assessment of CMIP6 models for Europe that can be used to inform the sub-selection of models for this region. Our…”
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Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change by Huntingford, Chris, Zelazowski, Przemyslaw, Galbraith, David, Mercado, Lina M., Sitch, Stephen, Fisher, Rosie, Lomas, Mark, Walker, Anthony P., Jones, Chris D., Booth, Ben B. B., Malhi, Yadvinder, Hemming, Debbie, Kay, Gillian, Good, Peter, Lewis, Simon L., Phillips, Oliver L., Atkin, Owen K., Lloyd, Jon, Gloor, Emanuel, Zaragoza-Castells, Joana, Meir, Patrick, Betts, Richard, Harris, Phil P., Nobre, Carlos, Marengo, Jose, Cox, Peter M.

“…Assessing potential future carbon loss from tropical forests is important for evaluating the efficacy of programmes for reducing emissions from deforestation…”
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The potential for structural errors in emergent constraints by Sanderson, Benjamin M, Pendergrass, Angeline G, Koven, Charles D, Brient, Florent, Booth, Ben B. B, Fisher, Rosie A, Knutti, Reto

“…Studies of emergent constraints have frequently proposed that a single metric can constrain future responses of the Earth system to anthropogenic emissions…”
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Probabilistic projections of transient climate change by Harris, Glen R., Sexton, David M. H., Booth, Ben B. B., Collins, Mat, Murphy, James M.

“…This paper describes a Bayesian methodology for prediction of multivariate probability distribution functions (PDFs) for transient regional climate change. The…”
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Finding plausible and diverse variants of a climate model. Part II: development and validation of methodology by Karmalkar, Ambarish V., Sexton, David M. H., Murphy, James M., Booth, Ben B. B., Rostron, John W., McNeall, Doug J.

“…The usefulness of a set of climate change projections largely depends on how well it spans a range of outcomes consistent with known uncertainties. Here, we…”
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