Sentences with phrase «of climate sensitivity»

The surface temps matter because they are a key basis for estimates of climate sensitivity in the models used to make projections.

This new study found that accounting for the efficacy of historical forcings changes the best estimate of climate sensitivity from analysis of the instrumental period.

What's more, the slowdown meant that simple estimates of climate sensitivity based on the recent temperature record were lower.

It may — I stress may — allow a definitive determination of climate sensitivity.

First, we must consider the distribution of climate sensitivity estimates.

The possible climate impact by the sun in most calculations of climate sensitivity is not included at all.

The group hopes other scientists will conduct similar experiments using different models to help hone in on a more reliable measure of climate sensitivity.

IMO, narrowing the uncertainty in aerosol offsets is the only clear path to better understanding of climate sensitivity.

That way they don't have to completely deny basic physics, and they throw the exotic stuff in by using the relative uncertainty of climate sensitivity as a free parameter so to speak.

As it turns out, however, we can push our analysis further and show that the lower end of the climate sensitivity distribution does not offer the comfort it implies at first glance.

We also find an interesting relationship between the reliability of present climate states and spread of climate sensitivity.

Much of the interest in these values is however due to an implicit assumption that these contributions are directly relevant for the question of climate sensitivity.

These different measures put the likely value of climate sensitivity at about 2 - 4 °C per doubling of CO2.

The key is to redo their work, use a series of models with a wide range of climate sensitivity parameters... you know what to do.

In terms of climate sensitivity, if you ask different people you'd probably get different opinions, but I don't think they are very useful as a diagnostic for sensitivity constraints.

Any estimate of climate sensitivity comes with a range — a lower and upper limit within which the actual value could reasonably lie.

Some analysis of climate sensitivity has worked with a uniform prior — that's just one where all values are considered equally likely prior to incorporating our data.

But, once again, this may not matter in the case of the climate sensitivity since that is dealing with differences in forcings / temperatures rather than the actual values.

The ice core data make a nice illustration, and do provide an independent test of climate sensitivity.

Second, it is the among the lowest estimates of climate sensitivity among actively publishing climate researchers.

There was immediate disagreement about the amount of climate sensitivity from double and triple atmospheric CO2.

The response of cloud cover to increasing greenhouse gases currently represents the largest uncertainty in model predictions of climate sensitivity (see Chapter 8).

In this light, the arguments against reducing greenhouse gas emissions because of climate sensitivity are a form of gambling.

Indeed, one of the strongest constraints limiting the high side of climate sensitivities is from the models.

The implications are still that a lower estimate of climate sensitivity means «there is a reason to act».

We actually favor it and claim it currently gives the best indication of the climate sensitivity of the current climate.