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15 Mar 2022
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Spatial heterogeneity of 2015–2017 drought intensity in South Africa's winter rainfall zone
Willem Stefaan Conradie
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Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
Piotr Wolski
Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
Bruce Charles Hewitson
Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
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Donald P. Cummins, David B. Stephenson, and Peter A. Stott
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Richard E. Danielson, Minghong Zhang, and William A. Perrie
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Visibility is estimated for the 21st century using global and regional climate model output. A baseline decrease in visibility in the Arctic (10 %) is more notable than in the North Atlantic (< 5 %). We develop an adjustment that yields greater consistency among models and explore the justification of our ad hoc adjustment toward ship observations during the historical period. Baseline estimates are found to be sensitive to the representation of temperature and humidity.
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Matz A. Haugen, Michael L. Stein, Ryan L. Sriver, and Elisabeth J. Moyer
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Alex G. Libardoni, Chris E. Forest, Andrei P. Sokolov, and Erwan Monier
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Ralf Lindau and Victor Karel Christiaan Venema
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Climate data contain spurious breaks, e.g., by relocation of stations, which makes it difficult to infer the secular temperature trend. Homogenization algorithms use the difference time series of neighboring stations to detect and eliminate this spurious break signal. For low signal-to-noise ratios, i.e., large distances between stations, the correct break positions may not only remain undetected, but segmentations explaining mainly the noise can be erroneously assessed as significant and true.
Erik Fraza, James B. Elsner, and Thomas H. Jagger
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Climate influences on hurricane intensification are investigated by averaging hourly intensification rates over the period 1975–2014 in 8° by 8° latitude–longitude grid cells. The statistical effects of hurricane intensity, sea-surface temperature (SST), El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) are quantified. Intensity, SST, and NAO had a positive effect on intensification rates. The NAO effect should be further studied.
Giang T. Tran, Kevin I. C. Oliver, András Sóbester, David J. J. Toal, Philip B. Holden, Robert Marsh, Peter Challenor, and Neil R. Edwards
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In this work, we combine the information from a complex and a simple atmospheric model to efficiently build a statistical representation (an emulator) of the complex model and to study the relationship between them. Thanks to the improved efficiency, this process is now feasible for complex models, which are slow and costly to run. The constructed emulator provide approximations of the model output, allowing various analyses to be made without the need to run the complex model again.
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Short summary
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Day Zerowater crisis affecting Cape Town after the severe 2015–2017 drought motivated renewed research interest into causes and projections of rainfall variability and change in this water-stressed region. Unusually few wet months and very wet days characterised the Day Zero Drought. Its extent expanded as it shifted gradually north-eastward, concurrent with changes in the weather systems driving drought. Our results emphasise the need to consider the interplay between drought drivers.
The
Day Zerowater crisis affecting Cape Town after the severe 2015–2017 drought motivated...
