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DOI | 10.1029/2018GL081856 |
How Global Warming Changes the Difficulty of Synoptic Weather Forecasting | |
Scher, S.1,2; Messori, G.1,2,3 | |
2019-03-16 | |
发表期刊 | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
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ISSN | 0094-8276 |
EISSN | 1944-8007 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 46期号:5页码:2931-2939 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Sweden |
英文摘要 | Global warming projections point to a wide range of impacts on the climate system, including changes in storm track activity and more frequent and intense extreme weather events. Little is however known on whether and how global warming may affect the atmosphere's predictability and thus our ability to produce accurate weather forecasts. Here, we combine a state-of-the-art climate and a state-of-the-art ensemble weather prediction model to show that, in a business-as-usual 21st century setting, global warming could significantly change the predictability of the atmosphere, defined here via the expected error of weather predictions. Predictability of synoptic weather situations could significantly increase, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. This can be explained by a decrease in the meridional temperature gradient. Contrarily, summertime predictability of weekly rainfall sums might significantly decrease in most regions. Plain Language Summary Due to the chaotic nature of the atmosphere, it is impossible to make weather forecasts that are completely accurate. Therefore, all weather forecasts are inherently uncertain to a certain degree. However, this uncertainty-and thus the "difficulty" of making good forecastsis not the same for all forecasts. This opens up the highly important question whether global warming will affect the difficulty of weather forecasts. Due to the enormous socioeconomic importance of accurate weather forecasts, it is essential to know whether climate change adaption policies also need to take into account potential changes in the difficulty and accuracy of weather forecasts. We show that in a warmer world, it will be easier to predict fields such as temperature and pressure. Contrarily, it will be harder to make accurate precipitation forecasts, which might strongly affect both disaster prevention and rainfall-dependent industries such as the energy sector, all of which heavily rely on accurate precipitation forecasts. Additionally, we show that the uncertainty of predictions of pressure fields is to a large extent controlled by fluctuations in the temperature difference between the North Pole and the equator. This is a new and important insight into the fundamentals of weather forecast uncertainty. |
英文关键词 | ensemble forecasts climate change forecast uncertainty synoptic meteorology |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000462612900066 |
WOS关键词 | ARCTIC AMPLIFICATION ; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION ; PREDICTABILITY ; CMIP5 |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/181656 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Stockholm Univ, Dept Meteorol, Stockholm, Sweden; 2.Stockholm Univ, Bolin Ctr Climate Res, Stockholm, Sweden; 3.Uppsala Univ, Dept Earth Sci, Uppsala, Sweden |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Scher, S.,Messori, G.. How Global Warming Changes the Difficulty of Synoptic Weather Forecasting[J]. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2019,46(5):2931-2939. |
APA | Scher, S.,&Messori, G..(2019).How Global Warming Changes the Difficulty of Synoptic Weather Forecasting.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,46(5),2931-2939. |
MLA | Scher, S.,et al."How Global Warming Changes the Difficulty of Synoptic Weather Forecasting".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 46.5(2019):2931-2939. |
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