Abstract: Evidence is presented that the tropical convective variability behaves as 1/f noise for a 1?30-day period. This behavior is shown by analyzing the time series of convective available potential energy, which measures the ...

Abstract: Climate forecast skills are evaluated for surface temperature time series at grid points of a millennium control simulation from a state-of-the-art global circulation model [ECHAM5?Max Planck Institute Ocean Model (MPI-OM)]. ...

Abstract: recipitation maxima in global climate model (GCM) simulations are compared with observations in terms of resolution dependence and climate change. The analysis shows the following results: (i) the observed scaling law ...

Abstract: he observed relation of worldwide precipitation maxima P versus duration d follows the Jennings scaling law, P ≈ db, with scaling coefficient b ≈ 0.5. This scaling is demonstrated to hold for single-station rainfall extending ...

Abstract: bility of results from different automated methods of detection and tracking of extratropical cyclones is assessed in order to identify uncertainties related to the choice of method. Fifteen international teams applied ...