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Article: Tropospheric Adjustment Induces a Cloud Component in CO2 Forcing
- Article from:
- Journal of Climate
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright American Meteorological Society Jan 1, 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ABSTRACT
The radiative forcing of CO2 and the climate feedback parameter are evaluated in several climate models with slab oceans by regressing the annual-mean global-mean top-of-atmosphere radiative flux against the annual-mean global-mean surface air temperature change ΔT following a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration. The method indicates that in many models there is a significant rapid tropospheric adjustment to CO2 leading to changes in cloud, and reducing the effective radiative forcing, in a way analogous to the indirect and semidirect effects of aerosol. By contrast, in most models the cloud feedback is small, defined as the part of the change that evolves with ΔT. ...
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