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Decadal Prediction: Climate Information for Decision-Making
Lisa Goddard
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Global Climate Change Projections!
Source: IPCC 4th Assessment Report, Working Group 1: The Physical Science Basis for Climate Change hBp://ipcc-‐wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-‐report.html
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Southern Africa : Annual-Mean Temperature
Western Africa : Annual-Mean Temperature
Climate Change Projections cannot deliver predictions of decadal variability
Regional Scale Decadal PredicIons?
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Climate Variability & Change Globally!
Temperature
Most of the variability in the globally-‐averaged temperature is contained in the slowly varying “climate change” component.
65%
13%
21%
(Greene, Goddard & Cousin, EOS, 2010)
Annual Mean Temperature
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Pacific Decadal OscillaIon (PDO)
(Source: http://jisao.washington.edu/pdo)
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AtlanIc MulI-‐decadal OscillaIon (AMO) (DE-TRENDED)
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More strong hurricanes
Drought
More rain over Sahel and western India
Warm North Atlan7c linked to …
Two important aspects: a. Decadal-multidecadal fluctuations b. Long-term trend
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
North Atlantic Temperature
(Courtesy: Tom Delworth, GFDL)
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Decadal Predic7ons: Annual Temperature
(based on Goddard et al. 2012, Climate Dynamics; See also http://clivar-dpwg.iri.columbia.edu)
Do Ini*al Ocean Condi*ons Make More Accurate Predic*ons Than Just Knowing the Greenhouse Gasses ??
BeBer
Worse
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SAMPLING PAST OBSERVED CLIMATE: 2 Cases
Decadal Variability
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Take Away Points
1 – Consider BOTH climate variability and climate change … for establishing resilience, for informing management, and for planning
2 – Decadal predicIons from climate models are not yet ready for use
3 – But we can provide useful indicaIons of decadal-‐scale risk by analyzing past observaIons