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

Simulated response to inter-annual SST variations in the Gulf Stream region

2014 - Climate Dynamics, Vol. 42 (3), pp. 715-731

Hand, R., | Keenlyside, N.S., Omrani, N.-E. and Latif, M.

The variability of the East Asian Summer Monsoon and its relationship to ENSO in a partially coupled climate model

2014 - Climate Dynamics, Volume 42(1), pp. 367-379

Ding, H. | R.J. Greatbatch, W. Park, M Latif, V. Semenov, and X. Sun

Different flavors of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability

2014 - Climate Dynamics, Vol. 42 (1), pp. 381-399

Zanchettin, D. | O. Bothe, W. Müller, J. Bader, and Johann H. Jungclaus

Hindcast of the 1976/77 and 1998/99 climate shifts in the Pacific

2013 - J. Climate, Vol. 26(19), pp.7650-7661

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

Idealized dry quasi 2-D mesoscale simulations of cold-air outbreaks over the marginal sea ice zone with fine and coarse resolution

2013 - J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 8787–8813

Chechin, D. G. | C. Lüpkes, I. A. Repina, and V. M. Gryanik

Effect of sea ice morphology during Arctic summer on atmospheric drag coefficients used in climate models

2013 - Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 40 (2), pp. 446–451

Lüpkes, C. | Gryanik, V. M. , Rösel, A. , Birnbaum, G. and Kaleschke, L.

Stratosphere key for wintertime atmospheric response to warm Atlantic decadal conditions

2013 - Clim. Dyn., Vol. 42 (3), pp. 649-663

Omrani, N.-E. | Keenlyside, N.S., Bader, J. and E. Manzini

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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
Janice Scheffler