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March/April 2015 - 中国海洋大学 Lecture "Advanced conceptual issues in climate and coastal science" • 12 March - Utility of coastal science with emphasis on climate issues • 26 March - Concepts of regional climate servicing • 2 April – Detection and attribution of change • 9 April - Concepts of downscaling 1 3. Detection and attribution of change Based upon: Work done with Klaus Hasselmann, Eduardo Zorita, Armin Bunde, Armineh Barkhordarian, and Joans Bhend 2 The issue is deconstructing a given record with the intention to identify „predictable“ components. „Predictable“ -- either natural processes, which are known of having limited life times, -- or man-made processes, which are subject to decisions (e.g., GHG, urban effect) Differently understood in different social and scientific quarters. The issue is also to help to discriminate between culturally supported claims and scientifically warranted claims 3 What is behind this time serie? 4 Detection and attribution Detection: Determination if observed variations are within the limits of variability of a given climate regime. If this regime is the undisturbed, this is internal variability (of which ENSO, NAO etc. are part) If not, then there must be an external (mix of) cause(s) foreign to the considered regime. Attribution: In case of a positive detection: Determination of a mix of plausible external forcing mechanisms that best “explains” the detected deviations Issues: Uniqueness, exclusiveness, completeness of possible causes 5 Klaus Hasselmann, the inventor of D&A History: Hasselmann, K., 1979: On the signal-tonoise problem in atmospheric response studies. Meteorology over the tropical oceans (B.D.Shaw ed.), pp 251-259, Royal Met. Soc., Bracknell, Berkshire, England. Hasselmann, K., 1993: Optimal fingerprints for the detection of time dependent climate change. J. Climate 6, 1957 - 1971 Hasselmann, K., 1998: Conventional and Bayesian approach to climate change detection and attribution. Quart. J. R. Meteor. Soc. 124: 2541-2565 6 Change – a scientific challenge with societal significance For the societal debate, at least in the west, there are several questions, which need scientific answers, of significance: a) Is there a change ? What are the dominant causes for such a chance, and what are the expectations fo the future? b) Which consequences does this change have for people, society and ecosystems? In this lecture, I am dealing only with (a). We have three tasks • Manifestation: The found change is real and not an artifact of the data and data collection process (inhomogeneity) • Detection: The found change is beyond what may be expected due to natural (not externally caused) variations. • Attribution: A change, which was found to be beyond the range of natural variations, may plausibly and consistently be explained by a certain (mix of) external cause(s). 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Methodical issues • Randomness • Significant trends? 14 Noise as nuisance: masking the signal The 300 hPa geopotential height fields in the Northern Hemisphere: the mean 1967-81 January field, the January 1971 field, which is closer to the mean field than most others, and the January 1981 field, which deviates significantly from the mean field. Units: 10 m 15 Where does the stochasticity come from? Stochasticity is a mathematical construct to allow an efficient description of the (simulated and observed) climate variability. Simulation data: internally generated by a very large number of chaotic processes. Dynamical “cause” for real world’s natural unforced variability best explained as in simulation models. Noise or deterministic chaos? Mathematical construct of randomness – an adequate concept for description of features resulting from the presence of many chaotic processes. 17 The detection problem as a hypothesis test Test of the nullhypothesis: „considered climate signal is consistent with natural climate variability“ St P[o, o] with St representing the signal to be examined, whether it isconsistent with natural climate variability or not, and P[o, o] describing the distribution of the present climate with parameters o and o . Problem is to determine St and its distribution P. „Significant“ trends Often, an anthropogenic influence is assumed to be in operation when trends are found to be „significant“. • If the null-hypothesis is correctly rejected, then the conclusion to be drawn is – if the data collection exercise would be repeated, then we may expect to see again a similar trend. • Example: N European warming trend “April to July” as part of the seasonal cycle. • It does not imply that the trend will continue into the future (beyond the time scale of serial correlation). • Example: Usually September is cooler than July. 20 Losses from Atlantic Hurricanes Storm surges in Hamburg 22 Estimates of global mean temperature increase Quelle: http://www.dmi.dk/nyheder/arkiv/nyheder-2015/01/2014-er-klodens-varmeste-aar Temperature increase in the Baltic Sea Region Baltic Sea region (1982-2011) Data: CRU & EOBS 25 Losses from Atlantic Hurricanes Is the massive increase in damages attributable to extreme weather conditions? Estimation of damage if presence of people and values along the coast would have been constant – the change is attributable to socio-economic development Pielke, Jr., R.A., Gratz, J., Landsea, C.W., Collins, D., Saunders, M., and Musulin, R., 2008. Normalized Hurricane Damages in the United States: 1900-2005. Natural Hazards Review 27 Consistency of recent local change: Storm surges in Hamburg Difference betwenn peak heights of storm surges in Cuxhaven and Hamburg Main cause for recently elevated storm surges in Hamburg is the modification of the river Elbe – (coastal defense and shipping channel deepening) and less so because of changing storms or sea level. von Storch, H. and K. Woth, 2008: Storm surges, perspectives and options. Sustainability Science 3, 33-44 The Rybski et al-approach Temporal development of Ti(m,L) = Ti(m) – Ti-L(m) divided by the standard deviation of the m-year mean reconstructed temp record for m=5 and L=20 (top), and for m=30 and L=100 years. The thresholds R = 2, 2.5 and 3σ are given as dashed lines; they are derived from temperature variations modelled as Gaussian long-memory processes fitted to various reconstructions of historical temperature. Rybski, D., A. Bunde, S. Havlin,and H. von Storch, 2006: Long-term persistence in climate and the detection problem. Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L06718, doi:10.1029/2005GL025591 Clustering of warmest years Counting of warmest years in the record of thermometer-based estimates of global mean surface air temperature: In 2007, it was found that among the last 17 years (since 1990) there were the 13 warmest years of all years since 1880 (127 years). For both a short-memory world (𝛼 = 0.85) and for a long-memory world (d = 0.45) the probability for such an event would be less than 10-3. Thus, the data contradict the null hypothesis of variations of internal stationary variability Zorita, E., T. Stocker and H. von Storch, 2008: How unusual is the recent series of warm years? Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L24706, doi:10.1029/2008GL036228, 30 … there is something to be explained Thus, there is something going on in the global mean air temperature record, which needs to be explained by external factors. IPCC AR5, SPM 31 Zorita, et al., 2009 Regional clustering of warmest years Observed temperature trends iin the Baltic Sea region (1982-2011) Baltic Sea region Observed CRU, EOBS (1982-2011) 95th-%tile of „non-GS“ variability, derived from 2,000-year palaeo-simulations Estimating natural variability: 2,000-year high-resolution regional climate palaeo-simulation (Gómez-Navarro et al, 2013) is used to estimate natural (internal + external) variability. An external cause is needed for explaining the recently observed annual and seasonal warming over the Baltic Sea area, except for winter (with < 2.5% risk of error) 33 Losses from Atlantic Hurricanes Is the massive increase in damages attributable to extreme weather conditions? Estimation of damage if presence of people and values along the coast would have been constant – the change is attributable to socio-economic development Pielke, Jr., R.A., Gratz, J., Landsea, C.W., Collins, D., Saunders, M., and Musulin, R., 2008. Normalized Hurricane Damages in the United States: 1900-2005. Natural Hazards Review Consistency of recent local change: Storm surges in Hamburg Difference betwenn peak heights of storm surges in Cuxhaven and Hamburg Main cause for recently elevated storm surges in Hamburg is the modification of the river Elbe – (coastal defense and shipping channel deepening) and less so because of changing storms or sea level. von Storch, H. and K. Woth, 2008: Storm surges, perspectives and options. Sustainability Science 3, 33-44 “Guess patterns” When doing attribution, often “guess patterns” are used, which supposedly describe the fingerprint of the effect of a possible cause. The reduction of degrees of freedom is done by projecting the full signal S on one or a few several “guess patterns” Gk, which are assumed to describe the effect of a given driver. S = k k Gk + n with n = undescribed part. Example: guess pattern supposedly representative of the impact of increased CO2 levels Hegerl et al., 1996 163-209, ISBN 3-540-65033-4 Zwiers, F.W., 1999: The detection of climate change. In: H. von Storch and G. Flöser (Eds.): Anthropogenic Climate Change. Springer Verlag, Attribution diagram for observed 50year trends in JJA mean temperature. The ellipsoids enclose non-rejection regions for testing the null hypothesis that the 2-dimensional vector of signal amplitudes estimated from observations has the same distribution as the corresponding signal amplitudes estimated from the simulated 1946-95 trends in the greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas plus aerosol and solar forcing experiments. Attribution: Can we describe the development of air temperature by imposing realistic increasing greenhouse gas and aerosol loads on climate models? Yes, we can. Only natural factors Additional ly man made factors IPCC 2007 „observations“ Temperature change in the Baltic Sea Region Guess patterns: Baltic Sea region 10 simulations of RCMs from ENSEMBLES project. Forcing Boundary forcing of RCMs by global scenarios exposed to GS (greenhouse gases and Sulfate aerosols) forcing RCMs are forced only by elevated GHG levels; the regional response to changing aerosol presence is unaccounted for. “Signal” (2071-2100) minus (1961-1990); scaled to change per decade. 41 Observed and projected temperature trends (1982-2011) Observed CRU, EOBS (1982-2011) Projected GS signal, A1B scenario 10 simulations (ENSEMBLES) DJF and MAM changes can be explained by dominantly GHG driven scenarios None of the 10 RCM climate projections capture the observed annual and seasonal warming in summer (JJA) and autumn (SON). Projected GS signal patterns (RCMs) Observed trend patterns (CRU) 42 Solar surface irradiance in the Baltic Sea Region Observed 1984-2005 (MFG Satellites) Projected GS signal (ENSEMBLES) 1880-2004 development of sulphur dioxide emissions in Europe (Unit: Tg SO2). (after Vestreng et al., 2007 in BACC-2 report, Sec 6.3 by HC Hansson A possible candidate to explain the observed deviations of the trends in summer and autumn, which are not captured by 10 RCMs, could be the effect of changing regional aerosol emissions 43 Discussion: Attribution 1. Attribution needs guess patterns describing the expected effect of different drivers. 2. Non-attribution may be attained by detecting deviation from a given climate regime (the case of the stagnation) “Non-attribution” means only: considered factor is not sufficient to explain change exclusively. 3. Regional and local climate studies need guess patterns (in space and time) of more drivers, such as regional aerosol loads, land-use change including urban effects (the case of the Baltic Sea Region, Bo/Huann Hai region) 4. Impact studies need guess patterns of other drivers, mostly socio-economic drivers (the case of Hamburg storm surges and hurricane damages) General: Consistency of change with a set of expected responses is a demonstration of possibility and plausibility; but insufficient to claim exclusiveness. Different sets of hypotheses need to be discussed before arriving at an attribution. Dimension of D&A Strength of the argument • Statistical rigor (D) and plausibility (A). • D depends on assumptions about “internal variability” • A depends on model-based concepts. Thus, remaining doubts exist beyond the specified. How do we determine the „natural variability“? • With the help of the limited empirical evidence from instrumental observations or analyses, possibly after suitable extraction of the suspected „non-natural“ signal. • By accessing long „control simulations“ done with quasi-realistic models. • By projection of the signal on a proxy data space, and by determining the statistics of the latter from geoscience indirect evidence (e.g., tree rings). Change – a scientific challenge with societal significance For the societal debate, at least in the west, there are several questions, which need scientific answers, of significance: a) Is there a change ? What are the dominant causes for such a chance, and what are the expectations fo the future? b) Which consequences does this change have for people, society and ecosystems? In this lecture, I am dealing only with (a). We have three tasks • Manifestation: The found change is real and not an artifact of the data and data collection process (inhomogeneity) • Detection: The found change is beyond what may be expected due to natural (not externally caused) variations. • Attribution: A change, which was found to be beyond the range of natural variations, may plausibly and consistently be explained by a certain (mix of) external cause(s). 47