Module B - Processes and Modelling

The main goal of Module B is to improve the understanding of processes leading to decadal climate variability. Several of these have already been included in climate models, but their importance has not yet been completely clarified. The simulation of other processes requires sometimes a higher resolution of the model or an extension with additional subsystems. Their incorporation leads to an improvement of the MiKlip prediction system in addition to a bias correction. To reach these goals we pursue the following objectives:

Objective B1: Assessing the effects of enhanced resolution and model bias
Objective B2: Investigating mechanisms of decadal variability
Objective B3: Coupling of additional climate subsystems

Radiative and climate impacts of a large volcanic eruption during stratospheric sulfur geoengineering

2016 - Atmos. Chem. Phys., Vol 16, pp. 305-323

Laakso, A. | H. Kokkola., A.I. Partanen., U. Niemeier,, C. Timmreck, K.E.J. Lehtinen, H. Hakkarainen, and H. Korhonen

Multi-model ensemble analysis of Pacific and Atlantic SST variability in unperturbed climate simulations

2015 - Climate Dynamics, pp. 1-18

Zanchettin, D. | O. Bothe, A. Rubino, and J. H. Jungclaus

The use of a flow field correction technique for alleviating the North Atlantic cold bias with application to the Kiel

2015 - Climate Model. Ocean Dynamics, Vol. 65, pp. 1079-1093

Drews, A. | R. J. Greatbatch, H. Ding, M. Latif, and W. Park

Decadal hindcasts initialized using observed surface wind stress: Evaluation and prediction out to 2024

2015 - Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 42(15), pp. 6454–6461

Thoma, M. | R.J. Greatbatch, C. Kadow and R. Gerdes

What is the limit of climate engineering by stratospheric injection of SO2?

2015 - Atmos. Chem. Phys., Vol. 15, pp. 9129-9141

Niemeier, U. | C. Timmreck

Parameterization of drag coefficients over polar sea ice for climate models

Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter - Special Issue, 51 , pp. 29-34

Lüpkes, C. | V. M. Gryanik

Contact

Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Meteorologie
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Cubasch

Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Meteorologie
Dr. Kerstin Prömmel

Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Meteorologie
Janice Scheffler