Parallel Climate Model (PCM) Cluster Analysis

Forrest M. Hoffman, William W. Hargrove, David J. Erickson III, Robert J. Oglesby

New Paper Published August 2005: Using Clustered Climate Regimes to Analyze and Compare Predictions from Fully Coupled General Circulation Models

"Man, what a bummer!"

Surface Temperature, Precipitation, and Soil Moisture

• Characterizing Climate Regime Changes from Parallel Climate Model (PCM) Predictions (December 3, 2003)
• Hoffman, Forrest M., William W. Hargrove, David J. Erickson III, and Robert Oglesby. February 9-13, 2003. Using Clustered Climate Regimes for Understanding Water Cycle Variability. American Meteorological Society 83rd Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California.
• Hoffman, F. M., W. W. Hargrove, D. J. Erickson, and W. Oglesby. September 6, 2002. Using Clustering to Establish Climate Regimes from a Global Climate Model. Presented at the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research Seminar, Germantown, Maryland.

Surface Temperature, Precipitation, Soil Moisture, and Snow Depth

• Hoffman, F. M., W. W. Hargrove, D. J. Erickson, and W. Oglesby. June 25-28, 2002. Animations and Early Clustering Results Using PCM Model Output. Presented at the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Annual Meeting, Climate Change and Assessment Working Group, Breckenridge, Colorado. Invited.
• Water Cycle Clustering (January 17, 2002)

Surface Temperature, Precipitation, and Total Cloudiness

• Clustering Land Cells into 8 Environments (January 11, 2002)
• Clustering Only Land Cells (January 8, 2002)
• Evolution of Clusters Through Time (September 6, 2001)
• An Introductory Clustering of PCM Results (June 26, 2001)