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 …

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 …

Causes of higher climate sensitivity in CMIP6 models

MD Zelinka, TA Myers, DT McCoy… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Equilibrium climate sensitivity, the global surface temperature response to CO doubling, has
been persistently uncertain. Recent consensus places it likely within 1.5–4.5 K. Global …

High climate sensitivity in the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2)

A Gettelman, C Hannay, JT Bacmeister… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2) has an equilibrium climate
sensitivity (ECS) of 5.3 K. ECS is an emergent property of both climate feedbacks and …

Structure and performance of GFDL's CM4. 0 climate model

IM Held, H Guo, A Adcroft, JP Dunne… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We describe the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory's CM4. 0 physical climate
model, with emphasis on those aspects that may be of particular importance to users of this …

Earth system modeling 2.0: A blueprint for models that learn from observations and targeted high‐resolution simulations

T Schneider, S Lan, A Stuart… - Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate projections continue to be marred by large uncertainties, which originate in
processes that need to be parameterized, such as clouds, convection, and ecosystems. But …

Climate sensitivity and relative humidity changes in global storm-resolving model simulations of climate change

TM Merlis, KY Cheng, I Guendelman, L Harris… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The climate simulation frontier of a global storm-resolving model (GSRM; or k-scale model
because of its kilometer-scale horizontal resolution) is deployed for climate change …

Spread in model climate sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective mixing

SC Sherwood, S Bony, JL Dufresne - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Equilibrium climate sensitivity refers to the ultimate change in global mean temperature in
response to a change in external forcing. Despite decades of research attempting to narrow …

The GFDL global atmosphere and land model AM4. 0/LM4. 0: 1. Simulation characteristics with prescribed SSTs

M Zhao, JC Golaz, IM Held, H Guo… - Journal of Advances …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this two‐part paper, a description is provided of a version of the AM4. 0/LM4. 0
atmosphere/land model that will serve as a base for a new set of climate and Earth system …

[KNIHA][B] Climate change 2001: the scientific basis

JT Houghton, Y Ding, DJ Griggs, M Noguer… - 2001 - academia.edu
This report is the first complete assessment of the science of climate change since Working
Group I (WGI) of the IPCC produced its second report Climate Change 1995: The Science of …