Sentences with phrase «independent estimates of climate sensitivity»
In addition, past data can be used to provide independent estimates of climate sensitivity, which provide a reality check on the models.
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In addition, past data can be used to provide independent estimates of climate sensitivity, which provide a reality check on the models.
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and climate sensitivity may give the same result, underlining the continuing need to improve the independent estimates of the forcings.
In reality, climate scientists have used many different lines of evidence to create numerous independent estimates of the planet's climate sensitivity.
[Lorius et al., 1990] concluded from their analysis that climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 is 3 - 4ºC, in good agreement with independent estimates based on the physical understanding of CO2 forcing and relevant feedbacks as coded in models.
These ordinal constraints are unaffected by subjective or cultural risk - perception factors, they are independent of the discount rate, and they are independent of the magnitude of the estimate for climate sensitivity.
We study climate sensitivity and feedback processes in three independent ways: (1) by using a three dimensional (3 - D) global climate model for experiments in which solar irradiance So is increased 2 percent or CO2 is doubled, (2) by using the CLIMAP climate boundary conditions to analyze the contributions of different physical processes to the cooling of the last ice age (18K years ago), and (3) by using estimated changes in global temperature and the abundance of atmospheric greenhouse gases to deduce an empirical climate sensitivity for the period 1850 - 1980.