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  • Crossing the chasm: how to develop weather and climate models for next generation computers? 

    Lawrence, Bryan N.; Rezny, Mike; Budich, Reinhard; Bauer, Peter; Behrens, Jörg; Carter, Mick; Deconinck, Willem; Ford, Rupert; Maynard, Christopher; Mullerworth, Steven; Osuna, Carlos; Porter, Andrew; Serradell, Kim; Valcke, Sophie; Wedi, Nils; Wilson, Simon (European Geosciences Union, 2018-05-08)
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    Weather and climate models are complex pieces of software which include many individual components, each of which is evolving under pressure to exploit advances in computing to enhance some combination of a range of possible ...

  • Introducing design in the development of effective climate services 

    Christel, Isadora; Hemment, Drew; Bojovic, Dragana; Cucchietti, Fernando; Calvo, Luz; Stefaner, Moritz; Buontempo, Carlo (Elsevier, 2018-01)
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    Seasonal to decadal climate predictions have the potential to inform different sectors in adapting their short to medium term practices and plans to climate variability and change. The data these predictions generate, ...

  • What have we learnt from EUPORIAS climate service prototypes? 

    Buontempo, Carlo; Manlon, Helen M.; Bruno Soares, Marta; Christel, Isadora; Soubeyroux, Jean-Michel; Viel, Christian; Calmanti, Sandro; Bosi, Lorenzo; Falloon, Pete; Palin, Eika J.; Vanvyve, Emilie; Torralba, Verónica; Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube; Doblas-Reyes, Francisco; Pope, Edward C.D.; Newton, Paula; Liggins, Felicity (Elsevier, 2018-01)
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    The international effort toward climate services, epitomised by the development of the Global Framework for Climate Services and, more recently the launch of Copernicus Climate Change Service has renewed interest in the ...

  • Modelling of pollen dispersion in the atmosphere: evaluation with a continuous 1β+1δ lidar 

    Sicard, Michaël; Izquierdo, Rebeca; Jorba, Oriol; Alarcón, Marta; Belmonte, Jordina; Comerón, Adolfo; de Linares, Concepción; Baldasano, Jose M. (EDP Sciences, 2018-04-13)
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    Pollen allergenicity plays an important role on human health and wellness. It is thus of large public interest to increase our knowledge of pollen grain behavior in the atmosphere (source, emission, processes involved ...

  • Toward an imminent extinction of Colombian glaciers? 

    Rabatel, Antoine; Ceballos, Jorge Luis; Micheletti, Natan; Jordan, Ekkehard; Braitmeier, Michael; González, Javier; Mölg, Nico; Ménégoz, Martin; Huggel, Christian; Zemp, Michael (Taylor & Francis, 2018)
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    This study documents the current state of glacier coverage in the Colombian Andes, the glacier shrinkage over the twentieth century and discusses indication of their disappearance in the coming decades. Satellite images ...

  • Overview of experiment design and comparison of models participating in phase 1 of the SPARC Quasi-Biennial Oscillation initiative (QBOi) 

    Butchart, Neal; Anstey, James A.; Hamilton, Kevin; Osprey, Scott; McLandress, Charles; Bushell, Andrew C.; Kawatani, Yoshio; Kim, Young-Ha; Lott, François; Scinocca, John; Stockdale, Tim; Bellprat, Omar; Braesicke, Peter; Cagnazzo, Chiara; Chen, Chih-Chieh; Chun, Hye-Yeong; Dobrynin, Mikhail; Garcia, Rolando R.; Garcia-Serrano, Javier; Gray, Lesley J.; Holt, Laura; Kerzenmacher, Tobias; Naoe, Hiroaki; Pohlmann, Holger; Richter, Jadwiga H.; Scaife, Adam A.; Schenzinger, Verena; Serva, Federico; Versick, Stefan; Watanabe, Shingo; Yoshida, Kohei; Yukimoto, Seiji (European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2018-03-16)
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    The Stratosphere–troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) Quasi-Biennial Oscillation initiative (QBOi) aims to improve the fidelity of tropical stratospheric variability in general circulation and Earth ...

  • Observed modes of sea surface temperature variability in the South Pacific region 

    Saurral, Ramiro I.; Doblas-Reyes, Francisco J.; García-Serrano, Javier (Springer Verlag, 2018-02)
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    The South Pacific (SP) region exerts large control on the climate of the Southern Hemisphere at many times scales. This paper identifies the main modes of interannual sea surface temperature (SST) variability in the SP ...

  • How Skillful are the Multiannual Forecasts of Atlantic Hurricane Activity? 

    Caron, Louis-Philippe; Hermanson, Leon; Dobbin, Alison; Imbers, Jara; Lledó, Llorenç; Vecchi, Gabriel A. (American Meteorological Society, 2018-03)
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    The recent emergence of near-term climate prediction, wherein climate models are initialized with the contemporaneous state of the Earth system and integrated up to 10 years into the future, has prompted the development ...

  • Transforming climate model output to forecasts of wind power production: how much resolution is enough? 

    MacLeod, Dave; Torralba, Verónica; Davis, Melanie; Doblas-Reyes, Francisco (Wiley, 2018-01)
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    Wind power forecasts are useful tools for power load balancing, energy trading and wind farm operations. Long range monthly-to-seasonal forecasting allows the prediction of departures from average weather conditions beyond ...

  • Relationships between Arctic sea ice drift and strength modelled by NEMO-LIM3.6 

    Docquier, David; Massonnet, François; Tandon, Neil F.; Lecomte, Olivier; Fichefet, Thierry (European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2017-12-11)
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    Sea ice cover and thickness have substantially decreased in the Arctic Ocean since the beginning of the satellite era. As a result, sea ice strength has been reduced, allowing more deformation and fracturing and leading ...

  • Relative humidity vertical profiling using lidar-based synergistic methods in the framework of the Hygra-CD campaign 

    Labzovskii, Lev D.; Papayannis, Alexandros; Binietoglou, Ioannis; Banks, Robert F.; Baldasano, Jose M.; Toanca, Florica; Tzanis, Chris G.; Christodoulakis, John (European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2018-02-14)
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    Accurate continuous measurements of relative humidity (RH) vertical profiles in the lower troposphere have become a significant scientific challenge. In recent years a synergy of various ground-based remote sensing instruments ...

  • Comparison of full field and anomaly initialisation for decadal climate prediction: towards an optimal consistency between the ocean and sea-ice anomaly initialisation state 

    Volpi, Danila; Guemas, Virginie; Doblas-Reyes, Francisco J. (Springer Verlag, 2017-08)
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    Decadal prediction exploits sources of predictability from both the internal variability through the initialisation of the climate model from observational estimates, and the external radiative forcings. When a model is ...

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