Constraints on model response to greenhouse gas forcing and the role of subgrid-scale processes

B. Sanderson, R. Knutti, T. Aina, C. Christensen, N. Faull, D. Frame, W. Ingram, C. Piani, D. Stainforth, D. Stone & M. Allen

Journal of Climate, 21, 2384–2400, June 2008. Download pdf (1.6 MB)

Towards constraining climate sensitivity by linear analysis of feedback patterns in thousands of perturbed-physics GCM simulations

B. Sanderson, C. Piani, W.J. Ingram, D.A. Stone & M.R. Allen

Climate Dynamics, 30, 175–190, February 2008. Download pdf (3.7 MB)

Climate feedbacks determined using radiative kernels in a multi-thousand member ensemble of AOGCMs

B. Sanderson, K. Shell & W. Ingram

Climate Dynamics, 35, 1219–1236, December 2010. Download pdf (1.3 MB)

Human influence on climate in the 2014 southern England winter floods and their impacts

Nathalie Schaller, Alison L. Kay, Rob Lamb, Neil R. Massey, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Friederike E. L. Otto, Sarah N. Sparrow, Robert Vautard, Pascal Yiou, Ian Ashpole, Andy Bowery, Susan M. Crooks, Karsten Haustein, Chris Huntingford, William J. Ingram, Richard G. Jones, Tim Legg, Jonathan Miller, Jessica Skeggs, David Wallom, Antje Weisheimer, Simon Wilson, Peter A. Stott & Myles R. Allen

Nature Climate Change(2016): doi:10.1038/nclimate2927

Environmental online communication

A. Scharl (Ed.)

Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Series, 2004 Springer London, ISBN: 1-85233-783-4. Chapter 12: climateprediction.net: a global community for research in climate physics on EcoResearch.net website.

Avoiding dangerous climate change

H.J. Schellnhuber (Chief Ed.), W. Cramer, N. Nakicenovic, T. Wigley, & G. Yohe (Eds.)

Avoiding dangerous climate change, Cambridge University Press, 2006. In particular:

• Chapter 29 – Observational constraints on climate change
• Chapter 33 – Risks associate with stabilisation scenarios and uncertainty in regional and global climate change impacts

Stakeholder Perspectives on the Attribution of Extreme Weather Events: An Explorative Enquiry

Sebastian Sippel, Peter Walton, and Friederike E.L. Otto

Weather, Climate, and Society 2015; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-14-00045.1

Combining large model ensembles with extreme value statistics to improve attribution statements of rare events

Sebastian Sippel, Dann Mitchell, Mitchell T. Black, Andrea J. Dittus, Luke Harrington, Nathalie Schaller, Friederike E.L. Otto

Weather and Climate Extremes, doi:10.1016/j.wace.2015.06.004

Quantifying changes in climate variability and extremes: Pitfalls and their overcoming.

Sippel, S., Zeischler, J., Heimann, M., Otto, F.E.L., Peters, J. and Mahecha, M.D.

Geophysical Research Letters, 42(20): doi 10.1002/2015GL066307

A novel bias correction methodology for climate impact simulations

Sippel, S., Otto, F., Forkel, M., Allen, M., Guillod, B., Heimann, M., Reichstein, M., Seneviratne, S., Thonicke, K. and Mahecha, M

Earth System Dynamics, 7(1): 71-88.

The use of very large atmospheric model ensemble to assess potential anthropogenic influence on the UK summer 2012 high rainfall totals

Sarah Sparrow, Chris Huntingford, Neil Massey, Myles Allen

[in Explaining extreme events of 2012 from a climate perspective]. Bulletin of the American Meteorology Society, 94, S36-S41, 2013. Download pdf

Risks associated with stabilisation scenarios?

Dave Stainforth

Talk at Stabilisation 2005, Met Office, Exeter, February 2005.
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Uncertainty in predictions of the climate response to rising levels of greenhouse gases

D.A. Stainforth, T. Aina, C. Christensen, M. Collins, N. Faull, D.J. Frame, J.A. Kettleborough, S. Knight, A. Martin, J.M. Murphy, C. Piani, D. Sexton, L.A. Smith, R.A. Spicer, A.J. Thorpe & M.R. Allen

Nature, 433, 403–406, January 2005. Download pdf (720 KB)

Climateprediction.net: design principles for public resource modelling research

D. Stainforth, J. Kettleborough, A. Martin, A. Simpson, R. Gillis, A. Akkas, R. Gault, M. Collins, D. Gavaghan & M. Allen

Proceedings of 14th IASTED conference on parallel and distributed computing systems, 2002. Download pdf (250 KB)

Public resource distributed modelling

Dave Stainforth

Stockholm, Sweden, March 2006.
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Climateprediction.com: Distributed computing for public interest modelling research

D. Stainforth, J. Kettleborough, M.R. Allen, M. Collins, & A. Heaps

Computing in Science and Engineering, 4 (3), 2002. Download pdf (720 KB)

Security principles for public-resource modelling research

D. Stainforth, A. Martin, A. Simpson, C. Christensen, J. Kettleborough, T. Aina & M.R. Allen

Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Conference on Enabling Grid Technologies (ENTGRID), Modena, Italy, June 2004. Download pdf (50 KB)

The detection and attribution of human influence on climate

D.A. Stone, M.R. Allen, P.A. Stott, P. Pall, S.-K Min, T. Nozawa & S. Yukimoto

Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 34, 1–16, 2009. The detection and attribution of human influence on climate abstract on Annual Review of Environment and Resources website.

Attribution of extreme weather and climate-related events.

Stott, P.A., Christidis, N., Otto, F.E.L., Sun, Y., Vanderlinden, J.P., Jan van Oldenborgh, G., Vautard, R., von Storch, H., Walton, P., Yiou, P. and Zwiers, F.W.

WIREs Climate change, 7(1): 23-41. DOI: 10.1002/wcc.380

Human contribution to the European heatwave of 2003

P. Stott, D. Stone & M.R. Allen

Nature, 432, 610–614, December 2004. Download pdf (220 KB)