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

• 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: Tive; 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

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...