Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 7-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

The Role of Climate Sensitivity and Ocean Heat Uptake on AOGCM Transient Temperature Response

The Role of Climate Sensitivity and Ocean Heat Uptake on AOGCM Transient Temperature Response The role of climate sensitivity and ocean heat uptake in determining the range of climate model response is investigated in the second phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP2) AOGCM results. The fraction of equilibrium warming that is realized at any one time is less in those models with higher climate sensitivity, leading to a reduction in the temperature response range at the time of CO 2 doubling transient climate response (TCR) range. The range is reduced by a further 15%% because of an apparent relationship between climate sensitivity and the efficiency of ocean heat uptake. Some possible physical causes for this relationship are suggested. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Climate American Meteorological Society

The Role of Climate Sensitivity and Ocean Heat Uptake on AOGCM Transient Temperature Response

Download PDF
7 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/american-meteorological-society/the-role-of-climate-sensitivity-and-ocean-heat-uptake-on-aogcm-BsHAPtOouQ

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
American Meteorological Society
Copyright
Copyright © 2000 American Meteorological Society
ISSN
1520-0442
DOI
10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<0124:TROCSA>2.0.CO;2
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

The role of climate sensitivity and ocean heat uptake in determining the range of climate model response is investigated in the second phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP2) AOGCM results. The fraction of equilibrium warming that is realized at any one time is less in those models with higher climate sensitivity, leading to a reduction in the temperature response range at the time of CO 2 doubling transient climate response (TCR) range. The range is reduced by a further 15%% because of an apparent relationship between climate sensitivity and the efficiency of ocean heat uptake. Some possible physical causes for this relationship are suggested.

Journal

Journal of Climate – American Meteorological Society

Published: Oct 10, 2000

There are no references for this article.