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Interpretation of Cloud-Climate Feedback as Produced by 14 Atmospheric General Circulation Models
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Understanding the cause of differences among general circulation model projections of carbon dioxide-induced climatic change is a necessary step toward improving the models. An intercomparison of 14 atmospheric general circulation models, for which sea surface temperature perturbations were used as a surrogate climate change, showed that there was a roughly threefold variation in global climate sensitivity. Most of this variation is attributable to differences in the models' depictions of cloud-climate feedback, a result that emphasizes the need for improvements in the treatment of clouds in these models if they are ultimately to be used as climatic predictors.
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- Cess, R. D., Potter, G. L., Blanchet, J. P., Boer, G. J., Ghan, S. J., Kiehl, J. T., Le Treut, H., Li, Z.-X., Liang, X.-Z., Mitchell, J. F. B., Morcrette, J.-J., Randall, D. A., Riches, M. R., Roeckner, E., Schlese, U., Slingo, A., Taylor, K. E., Washington, W. M., Wetherald, R. T., & Yagai, I.
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- 1989-08-04
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- 245
- Issue
- 4917
- Pages
- 513-516
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- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
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- W2034892926
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- 59.04
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- closed
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- Cess, R. D., Potter, G. L., Blanchet, J. P., Boer, G. J., Ghan, S. J., Kiehl, J. T., Le Treut, H., Li, Z.-X., Liang, X.-Z., Mitchell, J. F. B., Morcrette, J.-J., Randall, D. A., Riches, M. R., Roeckner, E., Schlese, U., Slingo, A., Taylor, K. E., Washington, W. M., Wetherald, R. T., & Yagai, I. (1989). Interpretation of Cloud-Climate Feedback as Produced by 14 Atmospheric General Circulation Models. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.245.4917.513
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