How Asymmetries Between Arctic and Antarctic Climate Sensitivity Are Modified by the Ocean

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Singh, H. A., Garuba, O. A., Rasch, P. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Geophysical Research Letters 2018
• Subjects: polar climate; Arctic; Antarctic; climate sensitivity; ocean dynamics; radiative feedbacks; Pacific; Pauling; The Antarctic; albedo; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11982; https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079023

We investigate how the ocean response to CO2 forcing affects hemispheric asymmetries in polar climate sensitivity. Intermodel comparison of Phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project CO2 quadrupling experiments shows that even in models where hemispheric ocean heat uptake differences are s...