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October
2008
Second chances for lucky Gaia: A hypothesis of sequential selections. Richard A. Betts and Timothy M. Lenton
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October
2008
Regional Assessment of QUMP 17-member ensemble. Michael Sanderson
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October
2008
Assessment of climate metrics for comparing the climate impacts of short-lived and long-lived chemical species.
Olivier Boucher, Nicolas Bellouin, Bill Collins, Shekar Reddy, Jim Haywood, Colin Johnson, Fiona O’Connor
HCTN 74
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March
2007
Improved representation of aerosols for HadGEM2. Nicolas Bellouin, Olivier Boucher, Jim Haywood, Colin Johnson, Andy Jones, Jamie Rae, Stephanie Woodward
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January
2007
New Global River Routeing Scheme in the Unified Model. Pete Falloon, Richard Betts and Cyndy Bunton
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February
2006
Report on estimates of observational uncertainty in surface humidity and free-atmosphere temperature and humidity data. Mark P. McCarthy and K. Willett
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August
2006
Radiative forcing by anthropogenic surface albedo change before and since 1750. Richard A. Betts, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Navin Ramankutty
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August
2006
Dispersion Modelling studies of the Buncefield Oil Depot incident. Helen N. Webster, Steven J. Abel, Jonathan P. Taylor, David J .Thomson, James M. Haywood and Matthew C. Hort
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April
2003
Independent review of the major data sets developed or planned by the Climate Variability Group. S.F.B. Tett and D.E. Parker
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September
2003
How good is the Met Office Hadley Centre climate model? Research at CGAM on identifying and understanding model systematic errors: 1999-2002. Slingo, J.M., Guilyardi, E., Hodges, K., Hoskins, B.J., Inness, P.M., Lawrence, D.M., Neale, R.B., Osborne, T.M., Spencer, H. and Yang, G.-Y.
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June
2006
Heterogeneous chemistry in the STOCHEM model. Kirsty Pringle, Mike Sanderson and Bill Collins
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April
2006
The effect of time-step size on particle pair separation in kinematic simulation.
HCTN 64
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March
2006
A comparison of three surface flux datasets for use with standalone ocean climate models. Ian Culverwell and Helene Banks.
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March
2006
An improved description of canopy light interception for use in a GCM land-surface scheme: Calibration and testing against carbon fluxes at coniferous forest. V.R. Jogireddy, P.M. Cox, C. Huntingford, R.J. Harding and L. Mecardo.
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January
2005
The influence of solar changes on the Earth's climate. L.J. Gray, J.D. Haigh and R.G. Harrison
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April
2005
Linear regression downscaling of seasonal predictions for the UK climate districts. Anca Brookshaw and Mike Davey.
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December
2004
Systematic optimisation and climate simulation of FAMOUS, a fast version of HadCM3. Chris Jones, Jonathan Gregory, Robert Thorpe, Peter Cox, James Murphy, David Sexton and Paul Valdes.
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November
2004
Climat-land carbon cycle simulation of the 20th century: Assessment of HadCM3LC C4MIP Phase 1 Experiment. Chris Jones, Mathieu Warnier.
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November
2004
Analysis of ocean heat content change in ENACT and study into the effect of data sampling resolution on an eddy-permitting ocean model (HadCEM). Lesley Allison.
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October
2004
Assessing and simulating the altered functioning of the Earth system in the Anthropocene. P.M. Cox , N. Nakicenovic
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October
2004
Dynamical properties of the TRIFFID dynamic global vegetation model. J.K. Hughes, P.J. Valdes, R.A. Betts
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October
2004
HadGEM1 - Model description and analysis of preliminary experiments for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. Tim Johns, Chris Durman, Helene Banks, Malcolm Roberts, Alison McLaren, Jeff Ridley, Catherine Senior, Keith Williams, Andy Jones, Ann Keen, Graham Rickard, Stephen Cusack, Manoj Joshi, Mark Ringer, Buwen Dong, Hilary Spencer, Richard Hill, Jonathan Gregory, Anne Pardaens, Jason Lowe, Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo, Sheila Start, Yvonne Searl.
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September
2004
Evaluation of the atmospheric performance of HadGAM/GEM1. Gill Martin, Chris Dearden, Christina Greeves, Tim Hinton, Pete Inness, Paul James, Vicky Pope, Mark Ringer, Julia Slingo Rachel A. Stratton, Gui-Ying Yang
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September
2004
Reports on aspects of variability in high-resolution versions of HadAM3. Rachel A. Stratton.
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September
2004
The energetics of a semi-Lagrangian dynamical core, Rachel A. Stratton.
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September
2004
Tropical Performance of HadGAM1. Gill Martin, Pete Inness, Gui-Ying Yang, Brian Hoskins, Julia Slingo
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August
2004
Uncertainties of Central England Temperature series 1878-2003 and some changes to the maximum and minimum series. David Parker and Briony Horton
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May
2004
An initial estimate of the uncertainty in UK predicted climate change resulting from RCM formulation. David P. Rowell
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May
2004
Robustness of climate response in HadCM3 to various perturbations of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Michael Vellinga
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February
2004
An interactive DMS emissions scheme for the unified model. Andy Jones and David L. Roberts
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January
2004
Natural and human influences on Central England Temperature. David M. H. Sexton, David E. Parker and Chris K. Folland
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November
2003
Design of coupled atmosphere/ocean mixed-layer model experiments for probabilistic prediction. David M.H. Sexton and James Murphy
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November
2003
Handling uncertainties in UKCIP02 scenarios of the climate change. Geoff Jenkins and Jason Lowe
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June
2003
Analysis of predicted changes in methane emissions from wetland using IMOGEN. N. Gedny and P.M. Cox.
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March
2003
Amazonian dieback under climate-carbon cycle projections for the 21st century. P.M. Cox, R.A. Betts, M. Collins P. Harris, C. Huntingford and C.D. Jones
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December
2002
The sensitivity of global climate model simulations to the representation of soil moisture heterogeneity. N. Gedney and P.M.Cox
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September
2002
Emission of isoprene, monoterpenes, ethene and propene by vegetation. Dr Michael G. Sanderson
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August
2002
Regional climate model simulations of present-day and future climates of southern Africa. D.A. Hudson and R.G. Jones
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August
2002
Simulations of present-day and future climate over southern Africa using HadAM3H. D.A. Hudson and R.G. Jones
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May
2002
Constructing a Famous ocean model. Chris Jones
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January
2002
Emission of carbon monoxide by vegetation and Soils. Michael G. Sanderson
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January
2002
A physically based soil moisture nudging scheme. M.J. Best and P.E. Maisey
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December
2001
The relationship between global and hemispheric surface temperature averages and the thermohaline circulation. Jeff Knight, Rob Allan and Chris Folland
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September
2001
Processes governing the recovery of a perturbed thermohaline circulation in HadCM3. Michael Vellinga, Richard A. Wood and Jonathan M. Gregory
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September
2001
Global distribution of freshwater wetlands for use in STOCHEM. By Michael G. Sanderson
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September
2001
Pollution of the urban Midlands (PUMA). Development of an 'urban airshed' model for the West Midlands. Alison Redington, Dick Derwent, Derrick Ryall, Steven Mathew and Alistair Manning
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August
2001
MOSES 2.2 technical documentation. By Richard Essery, Martin Best and Peter Cox
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July
2001
Simulating the last glacial maximum with the coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model HadCM3. By Christopher D. Hewitt, Ronald J. Stouffer, Anthony J. Broccoli, John F.B. Mitchell and Paul J. Valdes.
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April 2001
The representation of water vapour and its dependence on vertical resolution in the Met Office Hadley Centre climate model. By V.D. Pope, J.A. Pamment, D.R. Jackson and A. Slingo.
HCTN 27
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February
2001
Global changes in climatic extremes during 2nd half of the 20th century. By Frich, P., Alexander, L.V., Della-Marta, P., Gleason, B., Haylock, M., Klein Tank, A. and Peterson, T.
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February
2001
Global climatic impacts of a collapse of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation. By Michael Vellinga and Richard A. Wood
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February
2001
Indirect aerosol forcing in a climate model with an interactive sulphur cycle. By Andy Jones, David L. Roberts, Margaret J. Woodage and Colin E. Johnson
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January
2001
Description of the 'TRIFFID' Dynamic Global Vegetation Model. By Peter Cox
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January
2001
Modelling vegetation and the carbon cycle as interactive elements of the climate system. By Peter M. Cox, Richard A. Betts, Chris D. Jones, Steven A. Spall and Ian Totterdell* * Southampton Oceanography Centre.
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January
2001
Anthropogenic climate change for 1860 to 2100 simulated with the HadCM3 model under updated emissions scenarios. By T.C. Johns, J.M. Gregory, W.J. Ingram, C.E. Johnson, A. Jones, J.A. Lowe, J.F.B. Mitchell, D.L. Roberts, D.M.H. Sexton, D.S. Stevenson*, S.F.B. Tett and M.J. Woodage
* - Dept of Meteorology, University of Edinburgh King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ
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December
2000
The relative roles of initial and boundary conditions in interannual to decadal climate predictability. By Mat Collins and Myles Allen
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October
2000
Estimating signal amplitudes in optimal fingerprinting. Part II: Application to general circulation models. Peter A. Stott, Myles R. Allen and Gareth S. Jones
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October
2000
Estimation of natural and anthropogenic contributions to 20th century temperature change. Simon F.B. Tett, Gareth S. Jones, Peter A. Stott, David C. Hill, John F.B. Mitchell, Myles R. Allen, William J. Ingram, Tim C. Johns, Colin E. Johnson, Andy Jones, David L. Roberts, David M.H. Sexton and Margaret J. Woodage
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August
2001
An investigation into the mechanisms of changes in mid-latitude storm tracks as greenhouse gases are increased, by Ruth E. Carnell and Catherine A. Senior.
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September
2000
Effects of changing physical parametrisation on the simulation of the Asian summer monsoon in the UK Meteorological Office Unified Model. G.M. Martin and M.K. Soman
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March
2000
A comparison of the variability of climate model with palaeo-temperature estimates from a network of tree-ring densities. M. Collins, T.J. Osborn, S.F.B. Tett, K.R. Briffa and F.H. Schweingruber
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January
2000
The time dependence of climate sensitivity. C.A. Senior and J.F.B. Mitchell
HCTN 14
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December
1999
The indirect effects of anthropogenic sulphate aerosol simulated using a climate model with an interactive sulphur cycle. A. Jones, D.L. Roberts and M.J. Woodage
HCTN 13
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December
1999
The impact of increasing horizontal resolution on the HadAM3 climate simulation. R.A. Stratton
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December
1999
Differential changes in observed surface and atmospheric temperature since 1979. S. Brown, D. Parker and D. Sexton
HCTN 11
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October
1999
Digitisation of Metform data and conversion to Flatfile Integer Format. M. Jackson.
HCTN 10
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August
1999
The impact of new physical parametrizations in the Met Office Hadley Centre climate model - HadAM3. V. Pope, M.L. Gallani, P. Rowntree and R. Stratton.
HCTN 9
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June
1999
A Lagrangian climatology for the North Atlantic. J. Methven, P. Berrisford and B. Hoskins.
HCTN 8
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May
1999
Simulating climatic change of the southern Asian monsoon using a nested regional climate model (HadRM2). D. Hassell and R. Jones.
HCTN 7
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April
1999
Representation of the radiative effect of convective anvils. J. Gregory.
HCTN 6
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March
1999
A review of recent studies of the influence of solar changes on the Earth's climate. R.G. Harrison and K.P. Shine
HCTN 5
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January
1999
An analogue model to derive additional climate change scenarios from existing GCM simulations. C. Huntingford and P.M. Cox.
HCTN 4
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January
1999
Characterising GCM land surface schemes to understand their responses to climate change. N. Gedney, P.M. Cox, H. Douville, J. Polcher and J. Valdes.
HCTN 3
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December
1998
The salinity drift of HadCM3: Description, analysis and a scheme to correct the global average. J.A. Lowe and M. Gregory.
HCTN 2
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November
1998
The transient response to increasing greenhouse gases using models with and without flux adjustment. J.F.B. Mitchell, T.C. Johns and C.A. Senior.
HCTN 1
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September
1998
The simulation of SST, sea ice extents and ocean heat transport in a version of the Met Office Hadley Centre coupled model without flux adjustments. C Gordon, C Cooper, C.A. Senior, H. Banks, J.M. Gregory, T.C. Johns, J.F.B. Mitchell and R.A. Wood.