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 …

Context for interpreting equilibrium climate sensitivity and transient climate response from the CMIP6 Earth system models

GA Meehl, CA Senior, V Eyring, G Flato… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
For the current generation of earth system models participating in the Coupled Model
Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6), the range of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS …

Presentation and evaluation of the IPSL‐CM6A‐LR climate model

O Boucher, J Servonnat, AL Albright… - Journal of Advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents the global climate model IPSL‐CM6A‐LR developed at Institut Pierre‐
Simon Laplace (IPSL) to study natural climate variability and climate response to natural and …

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 …

UKESM1: Description and evaluation of the UK Earth System Model

AA Sellar, CG Jones, JP Mulcahy… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We document the development of the first version of the UK Earth System Model UKESM1.
The model represents a major advance on its predecessor HadGEM2‐ES, with …

Framing, Context, and Methods (Chapter 1)

D Chen, M Rojas, BH Samset, K Cobb… - 2021 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses
the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, evaluating knowledge …

Confronting the challenge of modeling cloud and precipitation microphysics

H Morrison, M van Lier‐Walqui… - Journal of advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the atmosphere, microphysics refers to the microscale processes that affect cloud and
precipitation particles and is a key linkage among the various components of Earth's …

Latest climate models confirm need for urgent mitigation

PM Forster, AC Maycock, CM McKenna… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Many recently updated climate models show greater future warming than previously.
Separate lines of evidence suggest that their warming rates may be unrealistically high, but …

Opinion: Cloud-phase climate feedback and the importance of ice-nucleating particles

BJ Murray, KS Carslaw, PR Field - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Shallow clouds covering vast areas of the world's middle-and high-latitude oceans play a
key role in dampening the global temperature rise associated with CO 2. These clouds …

[HTML][HTML] On the climate sensitivity and historical warming evolution in recent coupled model ensembles

CM Flynn, T Mauritsen - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
The Earth's equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) to a doubling of atmospheric CO 2, along
with the transient climate response (TCR) and greenhouse gas emissions pathways …