Projects in CPDN. University of Oxford

On-going Projects:

The current projects being researched in climateprediction.net (CPDN for short) include:

ArctiCONNECT: Consequences of Arctic Warming for European Climate and Extreme Weather

CDDHDD: Cooling and heating degree days

EASHA: East Asia Summer Heatwave Attribution 2013

STORMS: Investigating how low-pressure systems may change in the future

Completed Projects:

Many of the projects researched in CPDN have now been completed, these are:

4C: Climate-Carbon Interactions in the Current Century

AFLAME: Attributing Amazon Forest fires from Land-use Alteration and Meteorological Extremes.

BBC Climate Change

CREDIBLE: Consortium on Risk in the Environment: Diagnostics, Integration, Benchmarking, Learning, and Elicitation

CSSP -> AAIM

DOCILE: Drives Of Change In mid-Latitude weather Events

EMBARK

EUCP: H2020 European Climate Prediction system

EXSAMPLES: SPF Climate Resilience ExSamples project (Extreme Samples)

Geoengineering

GOTHAM (Globally Observed Teleconnections and their role and representation in Hierarchies of Atmospheric Models)

HAPPI: Half a degree of additional warming project

HIASA

HYDRA: Project that investigated the sensitivity to, and uncertainties in the hydrological cycle to changes in land use and the carbon cycle.

IRF_ExtremeWeather: Parameter sensitivity of the response of extreme weather to climate forcing 

LOTUS: Long Term Undulations versus secular change in Chinese Climate, part of the Climate Science for Services Partnership China (CSSP-China) programme

Mid-Holocene

Millennium

National Trust

Ocean cooling geoengineering project

RAPID-CHAAOS: Project to find a set of model versions that can simulate recent surface and subsurface ocean changes.

RAPID-RAPIT

RECLIM: Regional Climate Projections Initiative Mexico UK, the influence of the anthropogenic activity on extreme weather events in Central America

Seasonal attribution experiment

Sulphur cycle

TCRE: 1.5 Degree Quantifying the cumulative carbon emissions

Thermohaline

TNC: The Nature Conservancy

UCS: Project that aimed to calculate the contribution of the worlds major carbon producers to extreme weather events

Validation & attribution experiment

Whakahura: Extreme events and the emergence of climate change

Weather@home completed projects:

2015 December Extreme weather in the UK

EUCLEIA: EUropean CLimate and weather Events: Interpretation and Attribution project that aimed to develop and improve the methods to help answer the question: How has the risk of extreme weather events changed in Europe, due to human-caused climate change?

FMEC: Forest Mortality, Economics, and Climate in Western North America

TITAN (Transition Into The Anthropocene): Learning about the climate system from data of the 19th and early 20th century

MaRIUS: Managing the Risks, Impacts and Uncertainties of drought and water Scarcity

REBuILD: Risk Evaluation of Brahmaputra Inundations for Loss and Damage

Weather@Home 2014: the causes of the UK winter floods

Weather@Home 2015: Western US Drought

Weather@Home ACE-Africa: Project that looked at whether and to what extent climate change is already affecting the magnitude and frequency of extreme weather events on the continent. It also investigated the impacts of such extreme weather events on hydrology.

Weather@Home ANZ 2013: the causes of recent heatwaves and drought in Australia and New Zealand

Weather@Home Climate Accountability: the causes of extreme heat in the Western US

Weather@Home: High Resolution 2003 European Heatwave

Weather@Home East Asia: Causes of 2013 Heatwave

Weather@Home: Mexico

WWA (World Weather Attribution): A collaborative project with Climate Central, that aimed to demonstrate the feasibility of near real-time attribution studies for extreme weather events around the world.

The research papers that were published from these completed projects can be found on the publications page of this website.