CMIP5 climate model analyses: Climate extremes in the United States
Abstract
Given the increases in spatial resolution and other improvements in climate modeling
capabilities over the last decade since the CMIP3 simulations were completed, CMIP5
provides a unique opportunity to assess scientific understanding of climate variability
and change over a range of historical and future conditions. With participation from
over 20 modeling groups and more than 40 global models, CMIP5 represents the latest
and most ambitious coordinated international climate model intercomparison exercise
to date. Observations dating back to 1900 show that the temperatures in the twenty-first
century have the largest spatial extent of record breaking and much above normal mean
monthly maximum and minimum temperatures. The 20-yr return value of the annual maximum
or minimum daily temperature is one measure of changes in rare temperature extremes.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/9175Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00172.1Publication Info
Wuebbles, D; Meehl, G; Hayhoe, K; Karl, TR; Kunkel, K; Santer, B; ... Sun, L (2014). CMIP5 climate model analyses: Climate extremes in the United States. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95(4). pp. 571-583. 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00172.1. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/9175.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Wenhong Li
Associate Professor of Climate
Dr. Li's research interests focus primarily on climate dynamics, land-atmosphere interaction,
hydroclimatology, and climate modeling. Her current research is to understand how
the hydrological cycle changes in the current and future climate and their impacts
on the ecosystems, subtropical high variability and change, unforced global temperature variability,
and climate and health issues.

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