Sentences with phrase «rapid responses to feedback»

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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.

A climate model that has positive feedback can be «tuned» by adjusting the inputs and internal model variables produce to make the model produce a rapid, very large, abrupt temperature response, to a small forcing change.

To say this another way, even if worst case warming scenarios with regards to feedbacks do emerge, all it does, from the human standpoint, is make rapid responses to climate change all the more urgent and necessarTo say this another way, even if worst case warming scenarios with regards to feedbacks do emerge, all it does, from the human standpoint, is make rapid responses to climate change all the more urgent and necessarto feedbacks do emerge, all it does, from the human standpoint, is make rapid responses to climate change all the more urgent and necessarto climate change all the more urgent and necessary.

So now there only remains for you to factor in the time lagged responses of isostatic adjustments, albedo feedback, ice melt and ocean heat accumulation to rapid forcing changes.

The growth and decay of continental ice sheets represents a slow feedback operating over millennia; if one is concerned with the more rapid response of the climate to CO2, ice sheets have to be accounted for as a major forcing.

This study therefore suggests the rapid response to CO2 forcing is (apart from a possible small negative response from LW water vapour) essentially confined to cloud fraction changes affecting SW radiation, and further that significant feedbacks with temperature occur in all cloud components (including this one), and indeed in all other classically understood «feedbacks».

Motivated by findings that major components of so - called cloud «feedbacks» are best understood as rapid responses to CO2 forcing (Gregory and Webb in J Clim 21:58 — 71, 2008), the top of atmosphere (TOA) radiative effects from forcing, and the subsequent responses to global surface temperature changes from all «atmospheric feedbacks» (water vapour, lapse rate, surface albedo, «surface temperature» and cloud) are examined in detail in a General Circulation Model.