Computation of extreme heat waves in climate models using a large deviation algorithm

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1712645115zbMATH Open1416.86013arXiv1709.03757OpenAlexW2756013113WikidataQ47573556 ScholiaQ47573556MaRDI QIDQ4967413FDOQ4967413

Authors: Francesco Ragone, Jeroen Wouters, F. Bouchet 

Publication date: 3 July 2019

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Studying extreme events and how they evolve in a changing climate is one of the most important current scientific challenges. Starting from complex climate models, a key difficulty is to be able to run long enough simulations in order to observe those extremely rare events. In physics, chemistry, and biology, rare event algorithms have recently been developed to compute probabilities of events that cannot be observed in direct numerical simulations. Here we propose such an algorithm, specifically designed for extreme heat or cold waves, based on statistical physics approaches. This gives an improvement of more than two orders of magnitude in the sampling efficiency. We describe the dynamics of events that would not be observed otherwise. We show that European extreme heat waves are related to a global teleconnection pattern involving North America and Asia. This tool opens a full range of studies, so far impossible, aimed at assessing quantitatively climate change impacts.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03757

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

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