Sentences with phrase «equilibrium climate sensitivity describes»

Equilibrium climate sensitivity describes how much the planet will warm if carbon dioxide levels were to double, and the Earth goes on to cope and stabilize to the new atmosphere.

Not exact matches

We climatologists describe this in terms of the climate sensitivity, the warming that results in equilibrium from a doubling of CO2.

part of the utility is that Charney sensitivity, using only relatively rapid feedbacks, describes the climate response to an externally imposed forcing change on a particular timescale related to the heat capacity of the system (if the feedbacks were sufficiniently rapid and the heat capacity independent of time scale (it's not largely because of oceanic circulation), an imbalance would exponentially decay on the time scale of heat capacity * Charney equilibrium climate sensitivity.