Not exact matches
Nature (
with hopefully some constructive
input from humans) will decide the global warming question based upon climate sensitivity, net
radiative forcing, and oceanic storage of heat, not on the type of multi-decadal time scale variability we are discussing here.
To obtain realistic simulations, it was found necessary to include additional energy sources and sinks: in particular, energy exchanges
with the surface and moist atmospheric processes
with the attendant latent heat release and
radiative heat
inputs.
Land warms quicker than ocean
with the same change in
radiative input: specific heat capacity being the main reason.
The warm / rainy phase of a composited average of fifteen oscillations is accompanied by a net reduction in
radiative input into the ocean - atmosphere system,
with longwave heating anomalies transitioning to longwave cooling during the rainy phase.
The correct approach would be to take the albedo of the earth everywhere that there are not clouds, then
with the given solar
input, calculate the non-cloud
radiative balance using this much darker albedo.
Anything by which we could delay the
radiative output for a while, up to a new equilibrium,
with constant
input from the sun, would suffice (Q - out < Q - in).
Is it not then fair to state that the link between tropopause and surface is given by the
radiative transfer equations along
with the proper
input in terms of ghg concentrations and spectroscopic properties, and starting atmospheric temperatures?