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 radiative feedbacks associated with water vapor, lapse rate, clouds, snow, and sea ice, and glob...
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ftunivreading:oai:centaur.reading.ac.uk:1610 2024-06-23T07:56:43+00:00 How well do we understand and evaluate climate change feedback processes? Bony, S. Colman, R. Kattsov, V.M. Allan, R.P. Bretherton, C.S. Hall, A. Hallegatte, S. Holland, M.M. Ingram, W. Randall, D.A. Soden, B.J. Tselioudis, G. Webb, M.J. 2006-08 https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/1610/ http://ams.allenpress.com/amsonline/?request=get-document&doi=10.1175%2FJCLI3819.1 unknown American Meteorological Society Bony, S., Colman, R., Kattsov, V.M., Allan, R.P. <https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/view/creators/90000870.html> orcid:0000-0003-0264-9447 , Bretherton, C.S., Hall, A., Hallegatte, S., Holland, M.M., Ingram, W., Randall, D.A., Soden, B.J., Tselioudis, G. and Webb, M.J. (2006) How well do we understand and evaluate climate change feedback processes? Journal of Climate, 19 (15). pp. 3445-3482. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI3819.1 <https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI3819.1> 550 Earth sciences Article PeerReviewed 2006 ftunivreading 2024-06-11T14:41:45Z 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 radiative 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, and (iii) the development of methodologies of evaluation of these feedbacks (or of some components) using observations. This suggests that continuing developments in climate feedback research will progressively help make it possible to constrain the GCMs’ range of climate feedbacks and climate sensitivity through an ensemble of diagnostics based on physical understanding and observations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice CentAUR: Central Archive at the University of Reading Journal of Climate 19 15 3445 3482 |
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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 radiative 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, and (iii) the development of methodologies of evaluation of these feedbacks (or of some components) using observations. This suggests that continuing developments in climate feedback research will progressively help make it possible to constrain the GCMs’ range of climate feedbacks and climate sensitivity through an ensemble of diagnostics based on physical understanding and observations. |
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Bony, S. Colman, R. Kattsov, V.M. Allan, R.P. Bretherton, C.S. Hall, A. Hallegatte, S. Holland, M.M. Ingram, W. Randall, D.A. Soden, B.J. Tselioudis, G. Webb, M.J. |
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How well do we understand and evaluate climate change feedback processes? |
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