The heights of the rectangular bars denote best estimate values guided by published values of the climate change agents and conversion to
radiative perturbations using simplified expressions for the greenhouse gas concentrations and model calculations for the ice sheets, vegetation and mineral dust.
A lower and more constrained estimate of climate sensitivity
using updated observations and detailed
radiative forcing time series R. B. Skeie (1), T. Berntsen (1,2), M. Aldrin (3), M. Holden (3), and G. Myhre (1)(1) Center for International Climate and Environmental Research — Oslo (CICERO), Norway (
[email protected]), (2) Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway, (3) Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo, Norway A key question in climate science is to quantify the sensitivity of the climate system to
perturbation in the
radiative forcing (RF).