CMIP5 climate model analyses: Climate extremes in the United States

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2014-01-01

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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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10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00172.1

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Wuebbles, D, G Meehl, K Hayhoe, TR Karl, K Kunkel, B Santer, M Wehner, B Colle, et al. (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.

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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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