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

A Scale-Consistent Terrestrial Systems Modeling Platform Based on COSMO, CLM, and ParFlow

2014 - Mon. Weat. Rev., Vol. 142, pp. 3466–3483

Shresta, P. | Sulis, M., Masbou, M., Kollet, S. and Simmer, C.

Towards multi-resolution global climate modeling with ECHAM6–FESOM. Part I: model formulation and mean climate

2014 - Clim. Dyn, Vol. 44 (3), pp. 757-780

Sidorenko, D. | T. Rackow, T. Jung, T. Semmler, D. Barbi, S. Danilov, K. Dethloff, W. Dorn, K. Fieg, H.F. Goessling, D. Handorf, S. Harig, W. Hiller, S. Juricke, M. Losch, J. Schröter,D. V. Sein, and Q. Wang

Technical Note: SWIFT - A fast semi-empirical model for polar stratospheric ozone loss

2014 - Atmos. Chem. Phys., Vol. 14, pp. 6545-6555

Rex, M. | S. Kremser, P. Huck, G. Bodeker, I. Wohltmann, M. Santee, and P. Bernath

Inter-hemispheric asymmetry in the sea-ice response to volcanic forcing simulated by MPI-ESM (COSMOS-Mill)

2014 - Earth Syst. Dynam., Vol. 5, pp. 223-242

Zanchettin D. | O. Bothe, C. Timmreck, J. Bader, A. Beitsch, H.-F. Graf, D. Notz, and J. H. Jungclaus

Toward a record of Central Pacific El Niño events since 1880

2014 - Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Vol. 119 (1), pp. 379-389

Pascolini-Campbell, M. | D. Zanchettin, O. Bothe, C. Timmreck, D. Matei, J. H. Jungclaus, and H.-F. Graf

Insights from Antarctica on volcanic forcing during the Common Era

2014 - Nature Climate Change, Vol. 4, pp. 693–69

Sigl, M. | J.R. McConnell, M. Toohey, M. Curran, S.B. Das, R. Edwards, E. Isaksson, K. Kawamura, S. Kipfstuhl, K. Krüger, L. Layman, O. Maselli, Y. Motizuki, H. Motoyama, D. R. Pasteris and M. Severi

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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
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