An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence

SC Sherwood, MJ Webb, JD Annan… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We assess evidence relevant to Earth's equilibrium climate sensitivity per doubling of
atmospheric CO2, characterized by an effective sensitivity S. This evidence includes …

Beyond equilibrium climate sensitivity

R Knutti, MAA Rugenstein, GC Hegerl - Nature Geoscience, 2017 - nature.com
Equilibrium climate sensitivity characterizes the Earth's long-term global temperature
response to increased atmospheric CO2 concentration. It has reached almost iconic status …

Recent global climate feedback controlled by Southern Ocean cooling

SM Kang, P Ceppi, Y Yu, IS Kang - Nature Geoscience, 2023 - nature.com
The magnitude of global warming is controlled by climate feedbacks associated with various
aspects of the climate system, such as clouds. The global climate feedback is the net effect …

Reconciling controversies about the 'global warming hiatus'

I Medhaug, MB Stolpe, EM Fischer, R Knutti - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Between about 1998 and 2012, a time that coincided with political negotiations for
preventing climate change, the surface of Earth seemed hardly to warm. This phenomenon …

Polar amplification dominated by local forcing and feedbacks

MF Stuecker, CM Bitz, KC Armour… - Nature Climate …, 2018 - nature.com
The surface temperature response to greenhouse gas forcing displays a characteristic
pattern of polar-amplified warming,,,–, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere. However, the …

Cloud feedback mechanisms and their representation in global climate models

P Ceppi, F Brient, MD Zelinka… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cloud feedback—the change in top‐of‐atmosphere radiative flux resulting from the cloud
response to warming—constitutes by far the largest source of uncertainty in the climate …

[HTML][HTML] Is there warming in the pipeline? A multi-model analysis of the Zero Emissions Commitment from

AH MacDougall, TL Frölicher, CD Jones… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Abstract The Zero Emissions Commitment (ZEC) is the change in global mean temperature
expected to occur following the cessation of net CO 2 emissions and as such is a critical …

[HTML][HTML] The dependence of radiative forcing and feedback on evolving patterns of surface temperature change in climate models

T Andrews, JM Gregory, MJ Webb - Journal of Climate, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Dependence of Radiative Forcing and Feedback on Evolving Patterns of Surface
Temperature Change in Climate Models in: Journal of Climate Volume 28 Issue 4 (2015) …

On the effect of historical SST patterns on radiative feedback

T Andrews, A Bodas‐Salcedo… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the dependence of radiative feedback on the pattern of sea‐surface
temperature (SST) change in 14 Atmospheric General Circulation Models (AGCMs) forced …

Process drivers, inter-model spread, and the path forward: A review of amplified Arctic warming

PC Taylor, RC Boeke, LN Boisvert, N Feldl… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Arctic amplification (AA) is a coupled atmosphere-sea ice-ocean process. This
understanding has evolved from the early concept of AA, as a consequence of snow-ice line …