John Methven

TL;DR: Beniston et al. as discussed by the authors showed that a repeat of the 2003 summer would be extremely unlikely if stationarity in the past statistics were to be assumed, but that the temperatures experienced across Europe in summer 2003 could be considered "normal" by the end of the 21 century under a high greenhousegas emissions scenario.

TL;DR: Modelling and prediction efforts are starting to provide some useful information on how blocking and its impacts may change in the future, although deeper understanding of the processes at play will be needed to increase confidence in model projections.

TL;DR: Cannon et al. as mentioned in this paper used a state-of-the-art, 33-year reanalysis data set (MERRA) from NASA-GMAO to construct an hourly time series of nationally-aggregated wind power generation in Great Britain (GB), assuming a fixed, modern distribution of wind farms.

TL;DR: It is shown to be beneficial to combine ensembles from several data providers in a multimodel grand ensemble for a range of forecast parameters, and alternative methods to correct systematic errors are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, a case of long-range transport of a biomass burning plume from Alaska to Europe is analyzed using a Lagrangian approach using a photochemical trajectory model, which is used to examine processes responsible for the chemical evolution of the plume.