Exploring climate stabilisation at different global warming levels in ACCESS-ESM-1.5.
In: EGUsphere, 2024-01-22, S. 1-38
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Under the Paris Agreement, signatory nations aim to keep global warming well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and preferably below 1.5 °C. This implicitly requires achieving net-zero or net-negative greenhouse gas emissions to ensure long-term global temperature stabilisation or reduction. Despite this requirement, there have been few analyses of stabilised climates and there is a lack of model experiments to address our need for understanding the implications of the Paris Agreement. Here, we describe a new set of experiments using the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator earth system model (ACCESS-ESM-1.5) that enables analysis of climate evolution under net-zero emissions, and we present initial results. Seven 1000-year long simulations were run with global temperatures stabilising at levels in line with the Paris Agreement and at a range of higher global warming levels. We provide an overview of the experimental design and use these simulations to demonstrate the consequences of delayed attainment of global net-zero carbon dioxide emissions. As the climate stabilises under net-zero emissions, we identify significant and robust changes in temperature and precipitation patterns including continued Southern Ocean warming and reversal of transient mid-latitude drying trends. Regional climate changes under net-zero emissions differ greatly including contrasting trajectories of sea ice extent between the Arctic and Antarctic. We also examine the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and find evidence of reduced amplitude and frequency of ENSO events under climate stabilisation relative to projections under transient warming. An analysis at specific global warming levels shows significant regional changes continue for centuries after emissions cessation. Our findings suggest substantial long-term climate changes are possible even under net-zero emissions pathways. We hope these simulations will be of use to the community and hopefully motivate further experiments and analyses based on other earth system models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Exploring climate stabilisation at different global warming levels in ACCESS-ESM-1.5.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | King, Andrew D. ; Ziehn, Tilo ; Chamberlain, Matthew ; Borowiak, Alexander R. ; Brown, Josephine R. ; Cassidy, Liam ; Dittus, Andrea J. ; Grose, Michael ; Maher, Nicola ; Paik, Seungmok ; Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Sarah E. ; Sengupta, Aditya |
Zeitschrift: | EGUsphere, 2024-01-22, S. 1-38 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2024 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
DOI: | 10.5194/egusphere-2023-2961 |
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