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The LLNL-led research shows that climate models can and do simulate short, 10- to 12-year "hiatus periods" with minimal warming, even when the models are run with historical increases in greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosol particles. They find that tropospheric temperature records must be at least 17 years long to discriminate between internal climate noise and the signal of human-caused changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
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The research team is made up of Santer and Livermore colleagues Charles Doutriaux, Peter Caldwell, Peter Gleckler, Detelina Ivanova, and Karl Taylor, and includes collaborators from Remote Sensing Systems, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of Colorado, the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.K. Meteorology Office Hadley Centre, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.More Information
"Separating signal and noise in atmospheric temperature changes:The Importance of Time Scale,"Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres, Nov. 18, 2011Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
"Climate models confirm more moisture in atmosphere attributed to humans," LLNL news release, Aug. 10, 2009
"Tropopause height becomes another climate-change 'fingerprint,' " Science & Technology Review, March 2004
"Livermore Researchers Discover Uncertainties in Climate Satellite Data Hamper Detection of Global Warming," LLNL news release, May 1, 2003
Separating signal and noise in climate warming