Alessio Bellucci

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated changes in the intensity of heavy precipitation events at the end of the twenty-first century over the Euro-Mediterranean region using a subset of numerical climate simulations taking part to the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project.

TL;DR: In contrast to the tropics, for the mid latitudes the predictive skill of many forecasting systems at the seasonal time scale has been shown to be low to moderate as discussed by the authors, suggesting that better forecasts are possible, provided that key components of the climate system are initialized realistically and the coupled models are able to simulate adequately the dominant processes and teleconnections associated with low frequency variabi...

TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-model ensemble of decadal prediction experiments, performed in the framework of the EU-funded COMBINE (Comprehensive Modelling of the Earth System for Better Climate Prediction and Projection) Project following the 5th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project protocol is examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the major institutions in the field of meteorology, including the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, The Netherlands Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK University of Reading, Reading, UK 4 Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici, Bologna, Italy LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China P.R. 15 Texas A&M University, USA National Research Council-Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of realistic oceanic initial conditions on a set of decadal climate predictions performed with a state-of-the-art coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model are investigated.