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 …

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 …

GISS‐E2. 1: Configurations and climatology

M Kelley, GA Schmidt, LS Nazarenko… - Journal of Advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes the GISS‐E2. 1 contribution to the Coupled Model Intercomparison
Project, Phase 6 (CMIP6). This model version differs from the predecessor model (GISS‐E2) …

Ongoing breakthroughs in convective parameterization

C Rio, AD Del Genio, F Hourdin - Current Climate Change Reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review While the increase of computer power mobilizes a part of the
atmospheric modeling community toward models with explicit convection or based on …

Observational constraint on cloud feedbacks suggests moderate climate sensitivity

GV Cesana, AD Del Genio - Nature Climate Change, 2021 - nature.com
Global climate models predict warming in response to increasing GHG concentrations, partly
due to decreased tropical low-level cloud cover and reflectance. We use satellite …

Forcing, cloud feedbacks, cloud masking, and internal variability in the cloud radiative effect satellite record

SP Raghuraman, D Paynter, R Menzel… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Satellite observations show a near-zero trend in the top-of-atmosphere global-mean net
cloud radiative effect (CRE), suggesting that clouds did not further cool nor heat the planet …

General circulation models simulate negative liquid water path–droplet number correlations, but anthropogenic aerosols still increase simulated liquid water path

J Mülmenstädt, E Gryspeerdt, S Dipu… - Atmospheric …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
General circulation models'(GCMs) estimates of the liquid water path adjustment to
anthropogenic aerosol emissions differ in sign from other lines of evidence. This reduces …

Observed sensitivity of low-cloud radiative effects to meteorological perturbations over the global oceans

RC Scott, TA Myers, JR Norris, MD Zelinka… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Understanding how marine low clouds and their radiative effects respond to changing
meteorological conditions is crucial to constrain low-cloud feedbacks to greenhouse …

New generation of climate models track recent unprecedented changes in Earth's radiation budget observed by CERES

NG Loeb, H Wang, RP Allan, T Andrews… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We compare top‐of‐atmosphere (TOA) radiative fluxes observed by the Clouds and the
Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) and simulated by seven general circulation models …

[HTML][HTML] Characteristics of model tropical cyclone climatology and the large-scale environment

SJ Camargo, CF Giulivi, AH Sobel, AA Wing… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Bacmeister, JT, KA Reed, C. Hannay, P. Lawrence, S. Bates, JE Truesdale, N. Rosenbloom,
and M. Levy, 2018: Projected changes in tropical cyclone activity under future warming …