The main implication of the Brient
Alb emergent constraint is that the relationship between deseasonalized tropical low - cloud SW reflection and SST in the low - sensitivity inmcm4 and GISS - E2 models is far from that observed.
All but one of the models from NCAR, GFDL, GISS, UKMO and MPI, perhaps the best - known modelling centres, are ruled out by the Brient
Alb emergent constraint.
Not exact matches
It is interesting that Tapio Schneider, the joint author of the Brient
Alb paper, with considerable mathematical / statistical abilities, advocates caution regarding
emergent constraint studies.
The Brient
Alb and Zhai
emergent constraints are very similar; they both involve the variation of low cloud SW reflection with SST.