Climate Model Initialization and Improvement using Particle Filters CLIMIP

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Policymakers require predictions of regional and local climate for the near-term (the next 1-30 years) in order to plan effective adaptation strategies. Such predictions exist, but are subject to considerable uncertainties, firstly because our global climate models (GCMs) are imperfect, and because of the internal variability of climate, which can mask or enhance the changes due to external forcings, especially on regional scales (e.g. Hawkins and Sutton, 2009). Progress in climate science to improve GCMs and reduce uncertainty, and to use them more effectively to predict some of the internal variability component would therefore be extremely valuable. This project addresses both of these areas by providing a novel new method for initialising the GCMs, comparing that method with the state-of-the-art DePreSys system, and by identifying the processes responsible for model biases, and hence suggesting methods for GCM improvement.