2006: Review Article How Well Do We Understand and Evaluate Climate Change Feedback Processes

Processes in the climate system that can either amplify or dampen the climate response to an external perturbation are referred to as climate feedbacks. Climate sensitivity estimates depend critically on radia-tive feedbacks associated with water vapor, lapse rate, clouds, snow, and sea ice, and glo...

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Main Authors: Sandrine Bony, A Robert Colman, B Vladimir M. Kattsov, C Richard P. Allan, Christopher S. Bretherton, E Jean-louis Dufresne, A Alex Hall, F Stephane Hallegatte, Marika M. Holland, H William Ingram, I David A. Randall, J Brian J. Soden, K George Tselioudis, Mark, J. Webbm
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1976
Subjects:
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Sea ice
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.615.8602
http://www.lmd.jussieu.fr/~jldufres/publi/2006/Bony.Colman.ea-jclim-2006.pdf
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Summary:Processes in the climate system that can either amplify or dampen the climate response to an external perturbation are referred to as climate feedbacks. Climate sensitivity estimates depend critically on radia-tive feedbacks associated with water vapor, lapse rate, clouds, snow, and sea ice, and global estimates of these feedbacks differ among general circulation models. By reviewing recent observational, numerical, and theoretical studies, this paper shows that there has been progress since the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in (i) the understanding of the physical mechanisms involved in these feedbacks, (ii) the interpretation of intermodel differences in global estimates of these feedbacks

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