GC43G-06:
Climate feedback uncertainty quantification and learning using reduced models
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 3:20 PM
Nathan M Urban, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Balasubramanya T Nadiga, LANL, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Abstract:
Physical uncertainty in global temperature projections depends in large part on uncertainty in the climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide due to system feedbacks. We investigate the application of reduced climate models, including energy balance models and low-order stochastic systems, to efficiently explore the space of uncertainty. Using Bayesian parameter estimation on simulated data, we investigate the expected rate-of-learning about climate sensitivity into the future as more observational data becomes available, thereby narrowing the range of uncertainty in climate projections.
