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A Method for Calculating Reference Evapotranspiration on Daily Time Scales
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2011-02)
Measures of reference evapotranspiration are essential for applications of agricultural management and water resources engineering. Using numerous esoteric variables, one can calculate daily reference evapotranspiration ...
The Association of Large-Scale Climate Variability and Teleconnections on Wind Energy Resource over Europe and its Intermittency
(MIT Joint Program, 2013-09)
In times of increasing importance of wind power in the world’s energy mix, this study focuses on a better understanding of the influences of large-scale climate variability on wind power resource over Europe. The impact ...
CLM-AG: An Agriculture Module for the Community Land Model version 3.5
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-09)
It is estimated that 40% of all crops grown in the world today are grown using irrigation. As a consequence,
shifting precipitation patterns due to climate change are viewed as a major threat to food security. This
report ...
Consequences of Considering Carbon/Nitrogen Interactions on the Feedbacks between Climate and the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2007-06)
A number of observational studies indicate that carbon sequestration by terrestrial ecosystems in a world with an atmosphere richer in carbon dioxide and a warmer climate depends on the interactions between the carbon and ...
The Future of Global Water Stress: An Integrated Assessment
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2014-01)
We assess the ability of global water systems, resolved at 282 large river basins or Assessment Sub Regions (ASRs), to the meet water requirements over the coming decades under integrated projections of socioeconomic growth ...
Assessing Evapotranspiration Estimates from the Global Soil Wetness Project Phase 2 (GSWP-2) Simulations
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2009-09)
We assess the simulations of global-scale evapotranspiration from the Global Soil Wetness Project Phase 2 (GSWP-2) within a global water-budget framework. The scatter in the GSWP-2 global evapotranspiration estimates from ...
Mid-Western U.S. Heavy Summer-Precipitation in Regional and Global Climate Models: The Impact on Model Skill and Consensus Through an Analogue Lens
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2017-10)
Regional climate models (RCMs) in general can simulate the characteristics of heavy/extreme precipitation more accurately than general circulation models (GCMs) as a result of more realistic representation of topography ...
An Analogue Approach to Identify Extreme Precipitation Events: Evaluation and Application to CMIP5 Climate Models in the United States
(MIT Joint Program, 2013-11)
Global warming is expected to alter the frequency, intensity, and risk of extreme precipitation events. However, global climate models in general do not correctly reproduce the frequency and intensity distribution of ...
A Framework for Modeling Uncertainty in Regional Climate Change
(MIT Joint Program, 2013-05)
In this study, we present a new modeling framework and a large ensemble of climate projections to investigate the uncertainty in regional climate change over the US associated with four dimensions of uncertainty. The sources ...
Description and Evaluation of the MIT Earth System Model (MESM)
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2018-02)
The MIT Integrated Global System Model (IGSM) is designed for analyzing the global environmental changes that may result from anthropogenic causes, quantifying the uncertainties associated with the projected changes, and ...