Speaker
William Ingram
(Met Office Hadley Centre)
Description
With the recent European project PRIMAVERA and the continuing international HighResMIP comparison, there is now a great deal of data to look at the effect of resolutions on general circulation models. In the Hadley Centre's, while globally-integrated quantities such as climate sensitivity seem largely stable when resolution is changed, the impacts of climate change are of course felt locally, and there seems to be more sensitivity on more local scales. For example, there is evidence for rather higher resolution than normal being needed for the response of precipitation over Western Europe to climate change. I shall show preliminary results from comparing water vapour validation at different resolutions.
Primary author
William Ingram
(Met Office Hadley Centre)
