Richard Bintanja

TL;DR: A coupled model of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets and ocean temperatures, forced to match an oxygen isotope record for the past million years compiled from 57 globally distributed sediment cores, finds that during extreme glacial stages, air temperatures were 17.8 °C lower than present, with a 120 ± 10 m sea level equivalent of continental ice present.

TL;DR: EC-Earth, a new Earth system model based on the operational seasonal forecast system of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), is presented in this paper.

TL;DR: The EC-Earth consortium is a grouping of meteorologists and Earth-system scientists from 10 European countries, put together to face the challenges of climate and weather forecasting as mentioned in this paper, which is used for forecasts at daily-to-seasonal time scales and include data assimilation capabilities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used state-of-the-art global climate models to show that the projected increases in Arctic precipitation over the twenty-first century, which peak in late autumn and winter, are instead due mainly to strongly intensified local surface evaporation (maximum in winter), and only to a lesser degree due to enhanced moisture inflow from lower latitudes.

TL;DR: The importance of ice dynamics and ice–climate interactions in establishing the 100,000-year glacial cycles is demonstrated, with enhanced North American ice-sheet growth and the subsequent merging of the ice sheets being key elements.