Sentences with phrase «on climate sensitivity»

Of course, this all depends on climate sensitivity and what is regarded as a dangerous level of warming, as discussed on other posts on this site.

But the projections that end up having «policy relevance» are only loosely dependent on climate sensitivity.

For more on climate sensitivity, you can read this pdf.

Scientists have revealed the impact of clouds on climate sensitivity.

That one was about observed negative effects of cloud feedbacks on climate sensitivity.

Prior knowledge on the climate sensitivity plays a dominant role.

There was little presentation on climate sensitivity, except to mention that weak solar changes can result in a large CO2 feedback loop that can enhance temperature increases.

However, putting numbers on climate sensitivity is like scoring 10 own goals in the first ten minutes of a football match.

Not one slide on climate sensitivity except the initial 1.5 - 4.5 range that has still not been narrowed despite 40 years of research and technological progress.

That has been a subject of extensive discussion on another thread, and I'm always willing to offer my perspective on the climate sensitivity issue.

Once net aerosol offset is well constrained, there will be little room for disagreement on climate sensitivity.

That increased atmospheric water vapor will also affect cloud cover, though impacts of changes in cloud cover on climate sensitivity are much more uncertain.

Having better constraints on the timing and magnitude of past climate changes should ultimately lead to better constraints on climate sensitivity and the role of natural variability in the climate system.

Still, over the past year, several other papers have suggested that views on climate sensitivity are changing.

On the contrary, I want to separate out the effects on climate sensitivity estimation of varying GMST responses to different forcing agents, which is what MEA15 is about, from the effects of time - varying climate sensitivity in GISS - E2 - R.

It's a critique of SPM figure 10 and uses both Hansen's work on climate sensitivity as well as work by the Apollo - Gaia project on total Earth System sensitivity (ESS).

New paper mixing «climate feedback parameter» with climate sensitivity... «climate feedback parameter was estimated to 5.5 ± 0.6 W m − 2 K − 1» «Another issue to be considered in future work should be that the large value of the climate feedback parameter according to this work disagrees with much of the literature on climate sensitivity (Knutti and Hegerl, 2008; Randall et al., 2007; Huber et al., 2011).

I am glad to see that my input into the Wall Street Journal op - ed pages has prompted a piece on climate sensitivity at RealClimate.

Note that studies using radiosonde data may be affected by recently discovered inhomogeneities (Section 3.4.1.1), although Forest et al. (2006) illustrate that the impact of the radiosonde atmospheric temperature data on their climate sensitivity estimate is smaller than that of surface and ocean warming data.

As previewed last weekend, I spent most of last week at a workshop on Climate Sensitivity hosted by the Max Planck Institute at Schloss Ringberg.

The Science Media Centre soon followed with an attempt at «expert reaction to new report on climate sensitivity published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation `.

Overall we are closely tracking Scenario B, with Hansen's temperature predictions, based on a climate sensitivity of 4C, running slightly hot.