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 …

Clouds and convective self‐aggregation in a multimodel ensemble of radiative‐convective equilibrium simulations

AA Wing, CL Stauffer, T Becker… - Journal of Advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Radiative‐Convective Equilibrium Model Intercomparison Project (RCEMIP) is
an intercomparison of multiple types of numerical models configured in radiative‐convective …

Climate-invariant machine learning

T Beucler, P Gentine, J Yuval, A Gupta, L Peng… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Projecting climate change is a generalization problem: We extrapolate the recent past using
physical models across past, present, and future climates. Current climate models require …

[HTML][HTML] Patchy nightside clouds on ultra-hot Jupiters: general circulation model simulations with radiatively active cloud tracers

TD Komacek, X Tan, P Gao… - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters have been characterized in detail through recent
phase curve and low-and high-resolution emission and transmission spectroscopic …

Kilometer-scale global warming simulations and active sensors reveal changes in tropical deep convection

M Bolot, LM Harris, KY Cheng, TM Merlis… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in tropical deep convection with global warming are a leading source of
uncertainty for future climate projections. A comparison of the responses of active sensor …

Properties, changes, and controls of deep‐convecting clouds in radiative‐convective equilibrium

CL Stauffer, AA Wing - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in tropical high clouds associated with deep convection with warming are
one of the largest sources of uncertainty in climate feedbacks. Here, we leverage an …

On the resolution‐dependence of anvil cloud fraction and precipitation efficiency in radiative‐convective equilibrium

N Jeevanjee, L Zhou - Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical anvil clouds are an important player in Earth's climate and climate sensitivity, but
simulations of anvil clouds are uncertain. Here we identify and investigate one source of …

Episodic deluges in simulated hothouse climates

JT Seeley, RD Wordsworth - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Earth's distant past and potentially its future include extremely warm 'hothouse'climate
states, but little is known about how the atmosphere behaves in such states. One …

Convection and climate: What have we learned from simple models and simplified settings?

DL Hartmann, PN Blossey, BD Dygert - Current Climate Change Reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review We ask what fundamental insights about the relationship of
tropical convection to climate have arisen from recent investigations using simplified models …

A colorful look at climate sensitivity

B Stevens, L Kluft - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
The radiative response to warming and to changing concentrations of CO 2 is studied in
spectral space. If, at a particular wavenumber, the emission temperature of the constituent …