Determining shifts in climate regimes using earth system model projections.

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Forrest Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Running time: 22 minutes and 10 seconds

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Topics covered:

• Determining Shifts in Climate Regimes Using Earth System Model Projections
• How We Got Here and Where We're Going
• Multivariate Geographic Clustering
• Custom Ecoregions of Tennessee
• Similarity Colors' Encoding Scheme
• Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering
• Multi-Model Averages and Assessed Ranges for Surface Warming
• Community Climate System Model (CCSM3)
• CCSM3 A2 Similarity Colors
• Cluster Evolution
• Evolution of Changing Clusters
• Climate Regime Definitions
• Three Dimensional Climate Phase Space
• Climate State Space Trajectory-Middle East
• Complete Middle East Trajectory-A Climate Manifold
• Four CCSM3 A2 Ensemble Runs-Random Colors
• Four CCSM3 A2 Ensemble Runs-Similarity Colors
• Slide 18
• Four CCSM3 A2 Ensemble Runs-Climate Phase Spaces
• Can We Find a Way to Compare Model Runs?
• Yes!
• All Points From All BAU Runs
• BAU Runs-Random Colors
• BAU Runs-Similarity Colors
• BAU Runs-Cluster Evolution
• Common Climate Regime Definitions
• BAU Runs-Middle East Climate Trajectories
• BAU Runs-Middle East Climate Manifolds
• Climate Manifolds
• Summary