Sentences with phrase «feedback factor»

Other feedback factors relate to how much water vapor there will be in a warmer atmosphere and how fast sea ice and continental ice sheets will melt.

Other feedback factors relate to how much water vapor there will be in a warmer atmosphere and how fast sea ice and continental ice sheets will melt.

Does client feedback factor into the process at all?

The observed solar - cycle response suggests that it is a response to radiative effects of the TSI, amplified by the same climate feedback factors as for the greenhouse radiative forcing (52, 53).

My only point is that when folks like Al Gore talk about runaway warming and Earth becoming Venus, they are really implying runaway positive feedback effects with feedback factors greater than one.

Meaningful, timely feedback factored heavily in their student progress.

This is kind of amazing, in effect saying «we have no idea what the feedbacks are or how to measure them, but lacking any knowlege, we are going to consistently and universally assume very high positive feedbacks with feedback factors > 0.7»

They give an equation to determine the probability of a temperature rise of ΔT, given an estimated feedback factor f and the error on its determination σ (f).

The whole idea of metastability surrounded by positive feedback factors supports this idea.

point 4: There is not the slightest reason why a moderate positive feedback (feedback factor smaller than 1) would lead to instability (a runaway reaction).

The attempt to reconcile simulated warming patterns with the tropical glacier record will shed a lot of light on the influence of a range of climate feedback factors — including convection, clouds and water vapor — and the ability of models to faithfully represent them.

Feedback factors calculated for these processes, with atmospheric dynamical feedbacks implicitly incorporated, are respectively fwater vapor ∼ 1 - 6, fclouds ∼ 1.3 and fsnow / ice ∼ 1.1, with the latter mainly caused by sea ice changes.

Because the nature of these feedback factors is uncertain, the IPCC provides a range for ECS, rather than a single number.

Feeling the need to try to add a little insight, I have been taking a little look at «feedback factors» as in the equation:

Also it can be noted that the «feedback factors» are not feedbacks in the strictest sense as they are simply temperature dependent modifications the proportion of the bandwidth that is blocked or as the «resistance» the atmosphere presents to the escaping heat flux.

I would like to see a discussion of the likelihood that factors traditionally viewed as slow response feedback factors (such as Arctic albedo, or high methane emissions permafrost degradation) may actually become faster response feedback factors.

2) Early in the paper, Lindzen et al. write: «Since feedback factors are additive (see discussion in Section 4), we can examine the addition effect of feedbacks found in GCM results by simply adding their feedback factors to that of the area effect.»

I did mention that in theory, if the feedback factor is greater than one, in other words, if the first order feedback addition to input is greater than the original input, then the function rapidly runs away to infinity.

I.e. Clouds form ~ 92 % of all uncertainty in the feedback factor.

Because the nature of these feedback factors is uncertain, the IPCC provides a range for ECS, rather than a single number.

[2] The warming effect attributable to a doubling of CO2 with the impact of feedbacks factored in.

The main reasons are that (i) other forcing and feedback factors may co-vary in a statistically dependent way with CO2 and can not be separated, (ii) the operation of some climate feedbacks depends on the time scale considered, and (iii) the strength of climate feedbacks depends on the mean climate.

There is no possible way to determine the feedback factor of CO2.