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Mediterranean Sea Level Rise Scenarios from CIRCE

Mediterranean Sea Level Rise Scenarios from CIRCE.

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Mediterranean Sea Level Rise Scenarios from CIRCE

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  1. Mediterranean Sea Level Rise Scenarios from CIRCE S. Dobricic on behalf of the CIRCE project team: M. Adani, S. Gualdi, S. Somot, W. May, S. Castellari, M. Déqué, V. Artale, A, Bellucci, J. S. Breitgand, A. Carillo, R. Cornes, A. Dell’Aquila, C. Dubois, D. Efthymiadis, A. Elizalde, L. Gimeno, C. M. Goodess, A. Harzallah, S.O. Krichak, F.G. Kuglitsch, G.C. Leckebusch, B. L’Heveder, L. Li, P. Lionello, J. Luterbacher, A. Mariotti, R. Nieto, K. M. Nissen, P. Oddo, P. Ruti, A. Sanna, G. Sannino, E. Scoccimarro, M. V. Struglia, A. Toreti, U. Ulbrich, E. Xoplaki, G. Coppini, N. Pinardi, A. Bonaduce, G. Larnicol, I. Poujol, M. Ablain INGV

  2. Outline: • Main principles of the multimodel forecasting in CIRCE • Ongoing changes of the sea level in the Mediterranean • Multimodel forecasts of main parameters including sea level INGV

  3. Main principles of CIRCE forecasting • Provide a basic assessment of the climate change signal • A multi-model approach • Collaborative and coordinated assessment • Evaluate the ability of models to make long term forecasts INGV

  4. ~300 Km 1° m m State of the art before CIRCE • Coarse resolution models (e.g., ENSEMBLES, PRUDENCE and CMIP3-IPCC AR4, …) Orography, Land-Sea mask and Mediterranean Sea bathymetry in a CMIP3 (IPCC-AR4) model with horizontal resolution of ~300 Km INGV

  5. CIRCE models High-resolution and coupled atmosphere-ocean in the Mediterranean region INGV

  6. CIRCE models INGV

  7. CIRCE simulations • Initial conditions: oceanic mean state obtained from Levitus or MedAtlas-II • Spin-up: long integration performed with the observed 1950s (permanent) conditions (radiative forcing) • Integration 1951-2000: radiative forcing (GHGs and aerosol) prescribed according to observations (CMIP3) • projection 2001-2050: radiative forcing (GHGs and aerosol) prescribed according to the A1B AR4-SRES (CMIP3) INGV

  8. Evolution of the T2m INGV

  9. Precip trend 2001-2050 DJF Precip trend 2001-2050 JJA 10*(°C/decade) (mm/day)/decade T2m and Precipitation projected trends T2m trend 2001-2050 DJF T2m trend 2001-2050 JJA INGV

  10. Present Sea Level trends 3.6 2.5 1.9 1.8 INGV

  11. Ongoing Sea Level Change: Observations and CIRCE reanalyses Satellite SLA observations Steric Height Re-analyses Temperature Height Re-analyses Salinity Height Re-analyses INGV

  12. Steric component of Sea Level Change estimated by CIRCE INGV

  13. Summary of CIRCE forecasts • The CIRCE projections for the 21st century suggest that remarkable changes in the climate of the Mediterranean region might occur already in the next few decades • The Mediterranean lands will be about 20C warmer • The SST will be 1-20C warmer. • The precipitation will decrease (5% -10%) INGV

  14. Summary of CIRCE forecasts: Ongoing sea level change and future projections • Satellite observations show that the Mediterranean sea level rise trend is lower than the global. The CIRCE reanalyses suggest that the expansion of water due to the sea temperature rise is suppressed by the contraction due to the rise of the salinity. The total steric height trend is negative and it balances the global sea level rise due to the ice melting. • The CIRCE forecasts indicate that this trend will be inverted already in the next decade and the steric sea level will rise by 15cm in the first half of the 21st century INGV

  15. Water transport:Strait of Gibraltar OUTFLOW INFLOW NET TRANSPORT 1961-1990 2021-2050 Averaged value (± std) over the periods 1961-1990 and 2021-2050 of the outflow, inflow, and net water transport. Observations are from the period 2004-2009 (Soto-Navarro et al. 2010) INGV

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