Global warming has drawn great attention in recent years because of its large impact on many aspects of the environment and human activities in buildings. One area directly affected by climate change is the energy consumption for heating and cooling. To quantify the impact, this study used the HadCM3 Global Circulation Model (GCM) to generate weather data for future typical meteorological years...

Results from the implementation of the elastic viscous plastic sea ice rheology in HadCM3 W. Connolley, A. Keen, and A. McLaren British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK Received: 13 June 2006 – Accepted: 19 June 2006 – Published: 10 July 2006 Correspondence to: W. ...

[1] We explore the potential predictability of rapid changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC) using a coupled global climate model (HadCM3). Rapid changes in the temperature and salinity of surface water in the Nordic Seas, and the flow of dense water through Denmark Strait, are found to be precursors to rapid changes in the model’s MOC, with a lead time of around 10 yea...

During the last deglaciation (∼19–11 ka before present), global mean temperature increased by 3–8 K. The concurrent hydroclimate and land cover changes are not well constrained. Here, we use a pollen database to quantify global-scale vegetation during this transitional period at orbital (∼104 years) millennial timescales (∼103 years). We focus on proportion of tree shrub pollen, arboreal (AP) f...