predicting the consequences of climate change by understanding the past: bran2.1
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Predicting the consequences of climate change by understanding the past: BRAN2.1. David Griffin Peter Oke, Andreas Schiller (CSIRO) and Gary Brassington (BMRC). 20 ºC in winter? Global warming?. Just a localised anomaly, really. If not global warming, then what?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Predicting the consequences of climate change
by understanding the past: BRAN2.1 David Griffin
Peter Oke, Andreas Schiller (CSIRO)
and Gary Brassington (BMRC)
20ºC in winter? Global warming?
Just a localised anomaly, really.If not global warming, then what?
#2: 15ºC in summer? Please explain
Watch this cyclonic eddy develop:
14 Feb
15 Feb
16 Feb
17 Feb
18 Feb
19 Feb
20 Feb
21 Feb
22 Feb
23 Feb
Argo profile in centre of cold eddy:
atlas
Argo
Temperature
What do these events have in common?
• Both are consequences of a stronger EAC
• Very warm east of Tasmania last summer
• more on the way?
• what will it mean?
Puerulus settlement, SA and Tas:
observed
model
wind
No, we’re not there yet.
• Annual cycle OK.
• Inter-annual variability is not.
• The cause of five-fold changes to recruitment success for Southern Rock Lobster remains a mystery
Conclusions
• There’s never been so much interest in the future
• We don’t know what’s going to happen
• science does not yet have the answers
• spotting wrong answers is often easier
• we have produced BRAN to foster ecological research
• please use it
Thank you
BRAN1.0 BRAN1.5 BRAN2.0BRAN1.0 BRAN1.5 BRAN2.010/1992-12/2004 1/2003-6/2006 10/1992-12/2006Assimilates along-track SLA, T(Z), S(z)
Assimilates along-track SLA, T(z), S(z), AMSRE - SST
Assimilates along-track SLA, T(z), S(z), AMSRE – SST or Rey 1/4o OISST
no rivers no rivers Seasonal climatological river fluxes
SSS restoring (30 days); SST restoring (30 days)
no SSS or SST restoring SSS restoring (30 days in deep water only); no SST restoring
ECMWF surface heat, freshwater and momentum fluxes
ECMWF surface heat, freshwater and momentum fluxes
ECMWF surface heat and freshwater fluxes; and momentum fluxes from 10 m winds
3 day assimilation cycle 7 day assimilation cycle with 1 day nudging using 1 day relaxation
7 day assimilation cycle with 1 day nudging using 0.25 day relaxation
A few bugs No known bugs (yet) Fingers crossed
BRAN1.0 BRAN1.5 BRAN2.0BRAN1.0 BRAN1.5 BRAN2.0
Warm bias No temperature bias
Noticeably discontinuous in time (jumpy, shocks etc)
Acceptably continuous (can track features easily)
SST errors ~ 2-3 degrees SST errors ~ 0.6-0.8 degrees
SLA errors ~ 15 cm SLA errors ~ 8 cm
Bluelink Ocean Data Assimilation System, BODAS
Multivariate assimilation system:
sea level obs correct h,T,S,U,V
Single point assimilation …
Bluelink Ocean Data Assimilation System, BODAS
The spatial structure of the covariances are determined by the statistics of the free-running model.
Influence of sealevel obs at x