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    Probabilistic forecast for twenty-first-century climate based on uncertainties in emissions (without policy) and climate parameters

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    Date
    2009-10-01
    Author
    Sokolov, Andrei P.  Concept link
    Stone, P. H.  Concept link
    Forest, C. E.  Concept link
    Prinn, Ronald G.  Concept link
    Sarofim, Marcus C.  Concept link
    Webster, M.  Concept link
    Paltsev, Sergey  Concept link
    Schlosser, C. Adam  Concept link
    Kicklighter, David W.  Concept link
    Dutkiewicz, Stephanie  Concept link
    Reilly, John M.  Concept link
    Wang, C.  Concept link
    Felzer, Benjamin S.  Concept link
    Melillo, Jerry M.  Concept link
    Jacoby, Henry D.  Concept link
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    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/3980
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.1175/2009JCLI2863.1
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/3982
    DOI
    10.1175/2009JCLI2863.1
    Keyword
     Probability forecasts/models; Climate prediction; Anthropogenic effects; Numerical analysis/modeling; Feedback 
    Abstract
    The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Integrated Global System Model is used to make probabilistic projections of climate change from 1861 to 2100. Since the model’s first projections were published in 2003, substantial improvements have been made to the model, and improved estimates of the probability distributions of uncertain input parameters have become available. The new projections are considerably warmer than the 2003 projections; for example, the median surface warming in 2091–2100 is 5.1°C compared to 2.4°C in the earlier study. Many changes contribute to the stronger warming; among the more important ones are taking into account the cooling in the second half of the twentieth century due to volcanic eruptions for input parameter estimation and a more sophisticated method for projecting gross domestic product (GDP) growth, which eliminated many low-emission scenarios. However, if recently published data, suggesting stronger twentieth-century ocean warming, are used to determine the input climate parameters, the median projected warming at the end of the twenty-first century is only 4.1°C. Nevertheless, all ensembles of the simulations discussed here produce a much smaller probability of warming less than 2.4°C than implied by the lower bound of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) projected likely range for the A1FI scenario, which has forcing very similar to the median projection in this study. The probability distribution for the surface warming produced by this analysis is more symmetric than the distribution assumed by the IPCC because of a different feedback between the climate and the carbon cycle, resulting from the inclusion in this model of the carbon–nitrogen interaction in the terrestrial ecosystem.
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    Author Posting. © American Meteorological Society, 2009. This article is posted here by permission of American Meteorological Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Climate 22 (2009): 5175–5204, doi:10.1175/2009JCLI2863.1.
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    Journal of Climate 22 (2009): 5175–5204
     

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