Category Archives: Climate modelling

Abrupt climate change at the Royal Meteorological Society

Posted on 13 November, 2017 by Stephen Burt

By Joy Singarayer Recently I was excited to be invited to attend and talk at a Royal Meteorological Society meeting in London on abrupt climate change since the last ice age. The scope of the meeting was to highlight mechanisms … Continue reading →

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The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP)

Posted on 6 November, 2017 by Stephen Burt

By Charlie Williams The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) is a scheme run by Careers at the University of Reading, enabling undergraduate students in the middle of their degree to work alongside an academic and gain hands-on research experience. They … Continue reading →

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Forecasting the Indian monsoon

Posted on 23 October, 2017 by Stephen Burt

By Arathy Menon The South Asian monsoon, which brings rainfall to India and the neighbouring countries during the boreal summer season, is a major atmospheric circulation system. India receives more than 80% of its annual rainfall during the monsoon season, generally … Continue reading →

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Recent progress on decadal prediction in the North Atlantic

Posted on 16 October, 2017 by Stephen Burt

by Jon Robson The North Atlantic is a region of the Earth that is characterised by pronounced multi-decadal variability in surface temperatures – a phenomenon that has become known as Atlantic Multi-decadal Variability (AMV, see Sutton et al for a … Continue reading →

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Without the Tibetan Plateau, what would happen to the Asian summer monsoons?

Posted on 9 October, 2017 by Stephen Burt

By Mike Wong The Tibetan Plateau is the highest and most extensive plateau in the world, with an average elevation exceeding 4000 metres and stretching over 2.5 million square kilometres. While it is often called the ‘rooftop of the world’, … Continue reading →

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Can we use future data to improve our knowledge of the ocean?

Posted on 11 September, 2017 by Stephen Burt

By Chris Thomas An interesting problem in climate science is working out what happened in the world’s oceans in the last century. How did the temperature change, where were the currents strongest, and how much ice was there at the … Continue reading →

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BoBBLE: Air-sea interactions and intraseasonal oscillations in the Bay of Bengal

Posted on 31 July, 2017 by Stephen Burt

By Simon Peatman The Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) is one of the most significant features of the tropical climate. The heavy rain it brings during boreal summer provides around 80% of the annual precipitation over much of India with over 1 … Continue reading →

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Time scales of atmospheric circulation response to CO2 forcing

Posted on 17 July, 2017 by Stephen Burt

By Paulo Ceppi An important question in current climate change research is, how will atmospheric circulation change as the climate warms? When simulating future climate scenarios, models commonly predict a shift of the midlatitude circulation to higher latitudes in both … Continue reading →

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What’s in a number?

Posted on 10 July, 2017 by Stephen Burt

By Nancy Nichols Should you care about the numerical accuracy of your computer? After all, most machines now retain about 16 digits of accuracy, but usually only about 3-4 figures of accuracy are needed for most applications;  so what’s the … Continue reading →

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Why has there been a rapid increase in heat-related extremes in Western Europe since the mid-1990s?

Posted on 22 May, 2017 by Stephen Burt

By Buwen Dong In the last few decades, Europe has warmed not only faster than the global average, but also faster than expected from anthropogenic greenhouse gas increases (van Oldenborgh et al., 2009). With the warming, Europe experienced record-breaking heat … Continue reading →

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