Forecasting the climate response to volcanic eruptions: prediction skill related to stratospheric aerosol forcing
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Data publicació2018-06-06
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ProjecteACTIVIDAD DE LOS VOLCANOES EN PREDICCIONES CLIMATICAS ESTACIONALES Y DECENALES (MINECO-CGL2015-70177-R)
HIATUS EN TEMPERATURA DE SUPERFICIE DEL SIGLO XXI: INVESTIGACION, ATRIBUCION, COMPRENSION TEORICA Y EXPERIMENTOS UNICOS DE SENSIBILIDAD (MINECO-CGL2015-70353-R)
SPECS - Seasonal-to-decadal climate Prediction for the improvement of European Climate Services (EC-FP7-308378)
HIATUS EN TEMPERATURA DE SUPERFICIE DEL SIGLO XXI: INVESTIGACION, ATRIBUCION, COMPRENSION TEORICA Y EXPERIMENTOS UNICOS DE SENSIBILIDAD (MINECO-CGL2015-70353-R)
SPECS - Seasonal-to-decadal climate Prediction for the improvement of European Climate Services (EC-FP7-308378)
Abstract
The last major volcanic eruptions, the Agung in 1963, El Chichon in 1982 and Pinatubo in 1991, were each associated with a cooling of the troposphere that has been observed over large continental areas and over the Western Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Southern Atlantic. Simultaneously, Eastern tropical Pacific temperatures increased due to prevailing El Ni?o conditions. Here we show that the pattern of these near-surface temperature anomalies is partly reproduced with decadal simulations of the EC-Earth model initialised with climate observations and forced with an estimate of the observed volcanic aerosol optical thickness. Sensitivity experiments highlight a cooling induced by the volcanic forcing, whereas El Ni?o events following the eruptions would have occurred even without volcanic eruptions. Focusing on the period 1961?2001, the main source of skill of this decadal forecast system during the first 2 years is related to the initialisation of the model. The contribution of the initialisation to the skill becomes smaller than the contribution of the volcanic forcing after two years, the latter being substantial in the Western Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Western Atlantic. Two simple protocols for real time forecasts are investigated: using the forcing of a past volcanic eruption to simulate the forcing of a new one, and applying a two-year exponential decay to the initial stratospheric aerosol load observed at the beginning of the forecast. This second protocol applied in retrospective forecasts allows a partial reproduction of the skill attained with observed forcing.
CitacióMénégoz, M. [et al.]. Forecasting the climate response to volcanic eruptions: prediction skill related to stratospheric aerosol forcing. "Environmental Research Letters", 6 Juny 2018, vol. 13, núm. 6.
ISSN1748-9326
Versió de l'editorhttp://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aac4db/meta
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