Sentences with phrase «equilibrium sensitivity»

Researchers need to know the transient response and equilibrium sensitivity of climate forcings.

The challenge with this «instrumental» method of estimating equilibrium sensitivity is that it's based on transient instrumental measurements.

It is possible that effective climate sensitivity increases over time (ignoring, as for equilibrium sensitivity, ice sheet and other slow feedbacks), but there is currently no model - independent reason to think that it does so.

Despite the range in equilibrium sensitivity of 2.1 °C to 4.4 °C for CMIP3 models, they reproduce the global surface air temperature anomaly of 0.76 °C over 1850 — 2005 to within 25 % relative error.

This has quite a low equilibrium sensitivity (2.1) and hence quite a low transient senstivity.

The IPCC gets its 2 - 4.5 C climate sensitivity range from Table 8.2 of the AR4, which lists 19 climate model - derived equilibrium sensitivity estimates that have a mean of 3.2 C and a standard deviation of 0.7 C.

This rules out the beliefs of many prominent climate scientist contrarians, like Roy Spencer (who believes equilibrium sensitivity is around 1.3 °C) and Richard Lindzen (who believes it's less than 1 °C).

v3.0 has a higher equilibrium sensitivity (2.7 vs 2.2) and transient sensitivity.

some preliminary conclusions: A distinction must be made between transient climate sensitivity, equilibrium sensitivity and the equilibrium time.

The current crop of models studied by the IPCC range from an equilibrium sensitivity of about 1.5 °C at the low end to about 5 °C at the high end.

Equilibrium sensitivity, including slower surface albedo feedbacks, is 6 °C for doubled CO2 for the range of climate states between glacial conditions and ice - free Antarctica.»

Is the effective sensitivity visible over the last 100 years the same as the equilibrium sensitivity?

You seem to be arguing, however, that climate «equilibrium sensitivity» is known based purely on the physics.