Communications Earth & Environment (Sep 2021)

Projections of northern hemisphere extratropical climate underestimate internal variability and associated uncertainty

  • Christopher H. O’Reilly,
  • Daniel J. Befort,
  • Antje Weisheimer,
  • Tim Woollings,
  • Andrew Ballinger,
  • Gabriele Hegerl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00268-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Future projections of northern hemisphere extratropical climate based on climate model simulations substantially underestimate the uncertainty that originates from large-scale atmospheric circulation variability, suggest synthetic ensemble projections constrained with observations.