GOTHAM

Globally Observed Teleconnections in a Hierarchy of Atmospheric Models

Call 2015 with Belmont ForumClimate science

GOTHAM represents an ambitious research programme to gain robust, relevant and transferable knowledge of past and present-day patterns and trends of regional climate extremes and variability of vulnerable areas identified by the Intergovenmental Panel for Climate Change, including the tropics and high-latitudes. It has achieved this by identifying the influence of remote drivers – teleconnections - of regional climate variability, and
assessing their relative impact. The project has improved season-decadal prediction and understanding by using a combination of contemporary climate models, citizen-science computing and advanced statistical analysis tools.
GOTHAM investigators also utilise the power of citizen science by way of the renown distributed computing project climateprediction.net.

GOTHAM groups achieved the first retrospective forecastof an unprecedented disruption to winds within the tropical upper atmosphere, an event also discovered by GOTHAM investigator and collaborator groups.
GOTHAM groups undertook a study which linked extreme weather eventsoccurring during the northern summer of 2018 with unique hemisphere-wide wave patterns.
A very popular mid-project summer schoolwas held in Germany. This summer school helped underscore present-day environmental challenges while promoting the science solutions presented by GOTHAM groups.

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Impacts for GOTHAM have been achieved through the GOTHAM investigator/collaborator
networks, and their extensive involvement in wider science and science-policy programmes
with co-aligned strategies, such as the core projects within the World Climate Research
Programme. Improved seasonal to decadal scale forecasts improve predictions of extreme
events and natural hazard risks such as flooding that can have devastating impacts. The
project has striven to feed through to impacts-related research groups, such as those
involved in weather, hydrological and flood forecasting, by involving those groups in the
research we have done and exposing them to the techniques we use.

Scott Osprey

Dr Scott Osprey FRMetS Senior NCAS Research Scientist

My name is Scott Osprey and I am the Project Coordinator for GOTHAM based at the University of Oxford. My interests include the large-scale circulation in the upper atmosphere and how it is linked with weather. By understanding how a changing climate affects large-scale circulation and how this is linked with weather, I hope to better inform climate service providers of what changes we should expect in the future. I have been involved with GOTHAM from its conception and particularly relish the involvement of all the international investigator and collaborator groups.

Project consortium

University of Oxford
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Institute of Atmospheric Physics
Institute Pierre Simon Laplace
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

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GOTHAM Investigator groups include the Indian Institute for Tropical Meteorology, Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, University of Oxford, Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research.
GOTHAM Collaborators include the UK Met Office, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Danish Meteorological Institute, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Centre for Ecology and investigators and collaborators.

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Parent programme

Call 2015

Call for Climate Services Collaborative Research action on Climate Predictability and Inter-regional Linkages

Climate Services aim at providing more reliable climate information for the near future (months to decades) relevant for local and regional users. Within this broad context, variability of polar and tropical systems affects a large proportion of the world population. This call with the Belmont Forum aimed to contribute to the overall challenge of developing climate services with a focus on inter-regional linkages role in climate variability and predictability. Eight multi-national projects have been selected for funding through this call.

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