20 February 2023…
Climate Change and Agriculture Guest (Presentation): Evaluating and communicating Arctic climate change projections, Kansas State University, USA.
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Evaluating and communicating Arctic climate change projection
1. Evaluating and communicating
Arctic climate change
projections
@ZLabe
Zachary Labe
Postdoc at Princeton/GFDL
20 February 2023
Kansas State University
Climate Change and Agriculture
2. RESEARCHER
Climate signal vs. weather noise
@ZLabe
COMMUNICATOR
RESEARCHER
Arctic climate change
STORYTELLER
Simple, bold data visualization
ZACHARY LABE
Climate Scientist at Princeton University & NOAA GFDL
zachary.labe@noaa.gov
https://zacklabe.com/
15. [ SIT ]
Sea Ice
Thickness
Depth between sea
surface and ice/snow
layer
[ SIC ]
Sea Ice
Concentration
Fraction (%) of seawater
covered by ice
Snow
Ice
[ SIE ]
Sea Ice
Extent
Area of seawater
covered by any
amount of ice (>15%)
16. [ SIT ]
Sea Ice
Thickness
Depth between sea
surface and ice/snow
layer
[ SIC ]
Sea Ice
Concentration
Fraction (%) of seawater
covered by ice
Snow
Ice
[ SIE ]
Sea Ice
Extent
Area of seawater
covered by any
amount of ice (>15%)
17. [ SIT ]
Sea Ice
Thickness
Depth between sea
surface and ice/snow
layer
[ SIC ]
Sea Ice
Concentration
Fraction (%) of seawater
covered by ice
Snow
Ice
[ SIE ]
Sea Ice
Extent
Area of seawater
covered by any
amount of ice (>15%)
43. [Newson, 1973;
Nature]
“…great warming of the
lower layers of the
troposphere over the
Arctic basin... In fact,
there is a lowering of
mid-latitude continental
temperatures near the
surface”
65. Simulated Arctic temperatures
from 1930 to 2100 using a
climate model WITHOUT human-
caused climate change
Climate
Model
–
GFDL
SPEAR
(30
ensemble
members);
Delworth
et
al.
2020
66. What influences of climate
change do you see on
temperatures in the Arctic?
Climate
Model
–
GFDL
SPEAR
(30
ensemble
members);
Delworth
et
al.
2020
67. Projected future Arctic
temperatures from
2015 to 2100 using a
climate model with
increases in fossil fuel
development
Climate
Model
–
GFDL
SPEAR
(30
ensemble
members);
Delworth
et
al.
2020
68. Projected future Arctic
temperatures from 2015 to
2100 using a climate model
with moderate progress in
mitigation and other
sustainability goals
Climate
Model
–
GFDL
SPEAR
(30
ensemble
members);
Delworth
et
al.
2020
69. Projected future Arctic
temperatures from 2015 to
2100 using a climate model
with a rapid reduction in
current emissions globally
Climate
Model
–
GFDL
SPEAR
(30
ensemble
members);
Delworth
et
al.
2020
74. THE REAL WORLD
(Observations)
CLIMATE MODEL
ENSEMBLES
Range of ensembles
= internal variability (noise)
Mean of ensembles
= forced response (climate change)
75. Range of ensembles
= internal variability (noise)
Mean of ensembles
= forced response (climate change)
But let’s remove
climate change…
76. Range of ensembles
= internal variability (noise)
Mean of ensembles
= forced response (climate change)
After removing the
forced response…
anomalies/noise!
77. 2-m Temperature (°C)
THERE ARE MANY CLIMATE MODEL LARGE ENSEMBLES…
Annual mean 2-m temperature
7 global climate models
16 ensembles each
ERA5-BE (observations)
78. STANDARD EVALUATION OF
CLIMATE MODELS
Pattern correlation
RMSE
EOFs
Trends, anomalies, mean state
Climate modes of variability
79. STANDARD EVALUATION OF
CLIMATE MODELS
Pattern correlation
RMSE
EOFs
Trends, anomalies, mean state
Climate modes of variability
CORRELATION
[R]
80. STANDARD EVALUATION OF
CLIMATE MODELS
Pattern correlation
RMSE
EOFs
Trends, anomalies, mean state
Climate modes of variability
CORRELATION
[R]
81. STANDARD EVALUATION OF
CLIMATE MODELS
Pattern correlation
RMSE
EOFs
Trends, anomalies, mean state
Climate modes of variability
Negative Correlation Positive Correlation
PATTERN CORRELATION – T2M
83. ----ANN----
2 Hidden Layers
10 Nodes each
Ridge Regularization
Early Stopping
TEMPERATURE
We know some metadata…
+ What year is it? (Labe & Barnes, 2021)
+ Where did it come from?
LABE AND BARNES 2022, ESS
84. TEMPERATURE
We know some metadata…
+ What year is it? (Labe & Barnes, 2021)
+ Where did it come from?
Train on data from the
Multi-Model Large
Ensemble Archive
LABE AND BARNES 2022, ESS
102. Landscape of Change uses data
about sea level rise, glacier volume
decline, increasing global
temperatures, and the increasing use
of fossil fuels. These data lines
compose a landscape shaped by
the changing climate, a world in
which we are now living.
Jill Pelto|http://www.jillpelto.com/landscape-of-change
“
”
103. THE CLIMATE IS
CHANGING
IN REAL-TIME.
Considering a global view of
temperatures relative to
average – placing weather in
the context of climate
104. THE ARCTIC IS
CHANGING
IN REAL-TIME.
Daily Arctic temperature in
2018 (red) compared to
every year since 1958 in the
month of February. Average
is shown by the white line.
110. Crystal Polar Cruise, Aug. 2016
We need scientists.
We need educators.
We need innovators.
We need communicators.
111. KEY POINTS
Climate change effects have already emerged in the Arctic.
Improvements to observations and models will reduce uncertainty in
future climate projections.
We can still prevent the worst of the impacts in the Arctic.
Zachary Labe
zachary.labe@noaa.gov
@ZLabe
https://zacklabe.com/