Sentences with phrase «changing the climate sensitivity»

This changing climate sensitivity may be the result of other environmental factors that have, since the 1950s, increasingly acted to reduce tree - ring density below the level expected on the basis of summer temperature changes.

Including a temperature feedback on would change the climate sensitivity, but doesn't much change the impact of a small offset in.

Additionally, there is little evidence that the rate of conversion of cloud water to rain actually changes with temperature, although Mauritsen and Stevens show that incorporating the iris into the model does improve the model's simulations of some aspects of the climate system (even though it doesn't change climate sensitivity much).

Hello Ray, We get it, and the earth has no dial to change climate sensitivity either.

I guess the question is, if all else was held the same — if we had our fossil fuel industry but had not invented the chlorofluorocarbons and equivalents so hadn't lost so much of the ozone layer for so long — would that change climate sensitivity?

Changing Climate Sensitivity and «New» Growth Influences In the foregoing discussion, we have alluded to the fact that tree - growth, as represented in various standardised tree - ring chronologies in various parts of the world, often seems anomalous in the 20th century as compared to earlier centuries.

The proprietors are a bit puzzled, because they saw Ana Ravelo give a very similar presentation: — RRB - It was what I was referring to when I mentioned «a rather silly presentation on «changing climate sensitivity» which IMO just pointed to the inappropriateness of trying to analyse all historical climate changes as if they were a response to an imposed CO2 forcing, which of course they were not.»

Not exact matches

As the Climate Science Special Report states, the magnitude of future climate change depends significantly on «remaining uncertainty in the sensitivity of Earth's climate to [greenhouse gas] emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday in a staClimate Science Special Report states, the magnitude of future climate change depends significantly on «remaining uncertainty in the sensitivity of Earth's climate to [greenhouse gas] emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday in a staclimate change depends significantly on «remaining uncertainty in the sensitivity of Earth's climate to [greenhouse gas] emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday in a staclimate to [greenhouse gas] emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday in a statement.

Its sensitivity to climatic variables means that global climate change is likely to have profound impacts on coffee growing and production.

This sensitivity to climatic variables means that global climate change is likely to have profound impacts on coffee growing and production.

Earlier studies on the sensitivity of tropical cyclones to past climates have only analyzed the effect of changes in the solar radiation from orbital forcing on the formation of tropical cyclones, without considering the feedbacks associated to the consequent greening of the Sahara.

Scientists consider cold - blooded species particularly vulnerable to climate change because of their sensitivity to even small temperature shifts.

Researchers determined the extent of relative climate sensitivity in the reserves by looking at five factors: social, biophysical, and ecological sensitivity, and exposure to temperature change and sea level rise.

Research published last year by Professors Cox and Friedlingstein showed that these variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide can reveal the sensitivity of tropical ecosystems to future climate change.

Some of Australia's sensitivity to climate change stems from its evolution as a continent.

The conclusion that limiting CO2 below 450 ppm will prevent warming beyond two degrees C is based on a conservative definition of climate sensitivity that considers only the so - called fast feedbacks in the climate system, such as changes in clouds, water vapor and melting sea ice.

Given the high sensitivity inherent in tornado formation and the lack of any clear pattern in tornado events, scientists have been cautious in linking the storms to climate change in any way.

A leaked draft copy of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report (AR5) surfaced earlier this summer and triggered a small tempest among climate bloggers, scientists and skeptics over revelations that a key metric, called the «Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity» (ECS), had been revised doClimate Change's fifth assessment report (AR5) surfaced earlier this summer and triggered a small tempest among climate bloggers, scientists and skeptics over revelations that a key metric, called the «Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity» (ECS), had been revised doclimate bloggers, scientists and skeptics over revelations that a key metric, called the «Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity» (ECS), had been revised doClimate Sensitivity» (ECS), had been revised downward.

The ends of ice ages were different, but we can still use them to learn more about the sensitivity of the massive Antarctic ice sheet to climate change.»

A 2000 - year transient climate simulation with the Community Climate System Model shows the same temperature sensitivity to changes in insolation as does our proxy reconstruction, supporting the inference that this long - term trend was caused by the steady orbitally driven reduction in summer insoclimate simulation with the Community Climate System Model shows the same temperature sensitivity to changes in insolation as does our proxy reconstruction, supporting the inference that this long - term trend was caused by the steady orbitally driven reduction in summer insoClimate System Model shows the same temperature sensitivity to changes in insolation as does our proxy reconstruction, supporting the inference that this long - term trend was caused by the steady orbitally driven reduction in summer insolation.

But according to Zeebe, climate sensitivity could change over time.

[Drew T. Shindell, Inhomogeneous forcing and transient climate sensitivity] That means climate change with an increase of more than a degree Celsius compared with the last century is very likely already.

Published in Science Advances, this research shows variation among species is attributed to differing sensitivity to climate change, and also because species vary in how much the climate has changed for them (their «exposure»).

Sensitivity is a measure of how much species» numbers change as a result of year - to - year changes in the weather — each species is sensitive to different aspects of the climate, such as winter temperature or summer rainfall.

What's more, scientists say the plant's extraordinary sensitivity to temperature makes the industry a strong early - warning system for problems that all food crops are expected to confront as climates continue to change.

The study's results suggest that sensitivity to changes in climate can not be predicted simply by knowing locations within the species» climate envelope, she pointed out.

«If we are lucky and the climate sensitivity is at the low end, and we have a strong agreement in 2015, then I think we stand a chance to limit climate change to 2 °C,» says Corinne Le Quéré of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwiclimate sensitivity is at the low end, and we have a strong agreement in 2015, then I think we stand a chance to limit climate change to 2 °C,» says Corinne Le Quéré of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwiclimate change to 2 °C,» says Corinne Le Quéré of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwicchange to 2 °C,» says Corinne Le Quéré of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in NorwiClimate Change Research in NorwicChange Research in Norwich, UK.

«To my knowledge, this is the first record that so clearly shows sensitivity to one set of major abrupt climate change events and not another,» said Cobb.

By studying the relationship between CO2 levels and climate change during a warmer period in Earth's history, the scientists have been able to estimate how the climate will respond to increasing levels of carbon dioxide, a parameter known as «climate sensitivity».

Together, they will help us truly understand the natural sensitivity of Earth system and provide a better framework for predicting future climate change.»

Professor Richard Pancost from the University of Bristol Cabot Institute, added: «When we account for the influence of the ice sheets, we confirm that the Earth's climate changed with a similar sensitivity to overall forcing during both warmer and colder climates.»

«This lower sensitivity of trees to climate change likely reflects the reduced cold during winter that delays dormancy release.

To check whether warm winters have already attenuated the advance in spring phenology, an international team of researchers from China, Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland and Germany investigated the change in the sensitivity of leaf unfolding to climate warming using long - term observations for seven dominant European tree species at 1245 sites in Central Europe.

«Even more interesting is that as satellite measurements continue and so as the datasets get longer, we will be able to recalculate our metric over longer time periods to investigate how and if ecosystem sensitivity to climate variability is changing over time.»

The metric they have developed, the Vegetation Sensitivity Index (VSI), allows a more quantifiable response to climate change challenges and how sensitive different ecosystems are to short - term climate anomalies; e.g. a warmer June than on average, a cold December, a cloudy September, etc..

We show how the maintained consensus about the quantitative estimate of a central scientific concept in the anthropogenic climate - change field — namely, climate sensitivity — operates as an «anchoring device» in «science for policy».

That study addressed a puzzle, namely that recent studies using the observed changes in Earth's surface temperature suggested climate sensitivity is likely towards the lower end of the estimated range.

Dr. Benestad states: «In their formula for the calculation of the sun - related temperature change, the long - term changes are determined by Zeq, while their «climate transfer sensitivity to slow secular solar variations» (ZS4) is only used to correct for a time - lag.

As we explain in our glossary item, climatologists use the concept of radiative forcing and climate sensitivity because it provides a very robust predictive tool for knowing what model results will be, given a change of forcing.

Empirically, we know that for a particular model, once you know its climate sensitivity you can easily predict how much it will warm or cool if you change one of the forcings (like CO2 or solar).

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We propose that the remarkable quantitative stability of the climate sensitivity range has helped to hold together a variety of different social worlds relating to climate change, by continually translating and adapting the meaning of the «stable» range.

In their formula for the calculation of the sun - related temperature change, the long - term changes are determined by Zeq, while their «climate transfer sensitivity to slow secular solar variations» (ZS4) is only used to correct for a time - lag.

-- Climate probably has a higher sensitivity for solar than for CO2, for the same change in forcing.

The climate sensitivity is an output of complex models (it is not decided ahead of time) and it doesn't help as much with the details of the response (i.e. regional patterns or changes in variance), but it's still quite useful for many broad brush responses.

Thus in summary, a change in sensitivity of one of the primary actors in climate variation has only effect for the general sensitivity of climate, if all the feedbacks are essentially similar for all primary actors involved, which is highly probably not the case...

In estimating climate sensitivity such effects must be controlled for, and subtracted out to yield the portion of climate change attributable to CO2.

Indeed, the main quandary faced by climate scientists is how to estimate climate sensitivity from the Little Ice Age or Medieval Warm Period, at all, given the relative small forcings over the past 1000 years, and the substantial uncertainties in both the forcings and the temperature changes.

Our conclusions related to the «over-estimated» response could be dealt with using a 2x decrease in the assumed forcing, or a 2x decrease in the climate sensitivity, or a 2x increase in the low frequency change in the proxies (although not all at once!).

One common measure of climate sensitivity is the amount by which global mean surface temperature would change once the system has settled into a new equilibrium following a doubling of the pre-industrial CO2 concentration.