Reconciling modeled and observed temperature trends over Antarctica
Over the last three decades, ozone depletion over Antarctica has affected temperature and winds in the lower stratosphere, and even in the troposphere and at the surface. The second Chemistry Climate Model Validation activity (CCMVal2) concluded that chemistry-climate models simulate stratospheric c...
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ftunivcmadrid:oai:www.ucm.es:25393 2023-05-15T14:04:00+02:00 Reconciling modeled and observed temperature trends over Antarctica Calvo Fernández, Natalia García, R. R. Marsh, D. R. Mills, M. J. Kinnison, D. E. Young, P. J. 2012-08-28 application/pdf https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/25393/ https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/25393/1/calvofernandez02libre.pdf https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL052526 en eng American Geophysical Union https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/25393/1/calvofernandez02libre.pdf info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Astrofísica Astronomía Física atmosférica info:eu-repo/semantics/article PeerReviewed 2012 ftunivcmadrid https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL052526 2022-05-12T19:56:31Z Over the last three decades, ozone depletion over Antarctica has affected temperature and winds in the lower stratosphere, and even in the troposphere and at the surface. The second Chemistry Climate Model Validation activity (CCMVal2) concluded that chemistry-climate models simulate stratospheric cooling that is too large compared to observations, even though the modeled and observed ozone trends are similar. However, these comparisons were based only on radiosonde data available for 1969-1998. Here, we investigate trends in the Southern Hemisphere polar cap in the latest version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM1) with its high-top atmospheric component, WACCM4, fully coupled to an ocean model. We compare model trends with observations for different periods and with other modeling studies to show much better agreement with more recent data, and conclude that the discrepancy between observed trends and those calculated by high-top models may not be as large as previously reported. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM): E-Prints Complutense Geophysical Research Letters 39 16 n/a n/a |
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Over the last three decades, ozone depletion over Antarctica has affected temperature and winds in the lower stratosphere, and even in the troposphere and at the surface. The second Chemistry Climate Model Validation activity (CCMVal2) concluded that chemistry-climate models simulate stratospheric cooling that is too large compared to observations, even though the modeled and observed ozone trends are similar. However, these comparisons were based only on radiosonde data available for 1969-1998. Here, we investigate trends in the Southern Hemisphere polar cap in the latest version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM1) with its high-top atmospheric component, WACCM4, fully coupled to an ocean model. We compare model trends with observations for different periods and with other modeling studies to show much better agreement with more recent data, and conclude that the discrepancy between observed trends and those calculated by high-top models may not be as large as previously reported. |
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Calvo Fernández, Natalia García, R. R. Marsh, D. R. Mills, M. J. Kinnison, D. E. Young, P. J. |
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Calvo Fernández, Natalia García, R. R. Marsh, D. R. Mills, M. J. Kinnison, D. E. Young, P. J. |
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Reconciling modeled and observed temperature trends over Antarctica |
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Reconciling modeled and observed temperature trends over Antarctica |
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Reconciling modeled and observed temperature trends over Antarctica |
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Reconciling modeled and observed temperature trends over Antarctica |
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Reconciling modeled and observed temperature trends over Antarctica |
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