Half a degree additional warming, prognosis and projected impacts (HAPPI): background and experimental design

Mitchell, D; AchutaRao, K; Bethke, I; Beyerle, U; Ciavarella, A; Forster, PM; Fuglestvedt, J; Gillett, N; Haustein, K; Ingram, W; Iversen, T; Kharin, V; Klingaman, N; Massey, N; Fischer, E; Schleussner, C-F; Scinocca, J; Seland, Ø; Shiogama, H; Shuckburgh, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9206-3444; Sparrow, S; Stone, D; Uhe, P; Wallom, D; Wehner, M; Zaaboul, R. 2017 Half a degree additional warming, prognosis and projected impacts (HAPPI): background and experimental design. Geoscientific Model Development, 10. 571-583. 10.5194/gmd-10-571-2017

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Abstract/Summary

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has accepted the invitation from the UNFCCC to provide a special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and on related global greenhouse-gas emission pathways. Many current experiments in, for example, the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project (CMIP), are not specifically designed for informing this report. Here, we document the design of the half a degree additional warming, projections, prognosis and impacts (HAPPI) experiment. HAPPI provides a framework for the generation of climate data describing how the climate, and in particular extreme weather, might differ from the present day in worlds that are 1.5 and 2.0 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions. Output from participating climate models includes variables frequently used by a range of impact models. The key challenge is to separate the impact of an additional approximately half degree of warming from uncertainty in climate model responses and internal climate variability that dominate CMIP-style experiments under low-emission scenarios.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.5194/gmd-10-571-2017
ISSN:	1991959X
Date made live:	15 Feb 2018 10:41 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/519303

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.5194/gmd-10-571-2017

ISSN:

1991959X

Date made live:

15 Feb 2018 10:41 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/519303