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DOI | 10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0551.1 |
The Strength of Low-Cloud Feedbacks and Tropical Climate: A CESM Sensitivity Study | |
Erfani, Ehsan; Burls, Natalie J. | |
2019-05-01 | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
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ISSN | 0894-8755 |
EISSN | 1520-0442 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 32期号:9页码:2497-2516 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | Variability in the strength of low-cloud feedbacks across climate models is the primary contributor to the spread in their estimates of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS). This raises the question: What are the regional implications for key features of tropical climate of globally weak versus strong low-cloud feedbacks in response to greenhouse gas-induced warming? To address this question and formalize our understanding of cloud controls on tropical climate, we perform a suite of idealized fully coupled and slab-ocean climate simulations across which we systematically scale the strength of the low-cloud-cover feedback under abrupt 2 x CO2 forcing within a single model, thereby isolating the impact of low-cloud feedback strength. The feedback strength is varied by modifying the stratus cloud fraction so that it is a function of not only local conditions but also global temperature in a series of abrupt 2 x CO2 sensitivity experiments. The unperturbed decrease in low cloud cover (LCC) under 2 x CO2 is greatest in the mid- and high-latitude oceans, and the subtropical eastern Pacific and Atlantic, a pattern that is magnified as the feedback strength is scaled. Consequently, sea surface temperature (SST) increases more in these regions as well as the Pacific cold tongue. As the strength of the low-cloud feedback increases this results in not only increased ECS, but also an enhanced reduction of the large-scale zonal and meridional SST gradients (structural climate sensitivity), with implications for the atmospheric Hadley and Walker circulations, as well as the hydrological cycle. The relevance of our results to simulating past warm climate is also discussed. |
英文关键词 | Atmosphere-ocean interaction Feedback Climate sensitivity Clouds Coupled models General circulation models |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000464975600001 |
WOS关键词 | SURFACE-TEMPERATURE-GRADIENTS ; ARCTIC AIR FORMATION ; STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS ; HADLEY-CELL ; OCEAN ; PACIFIC ; MECHANISMS ; RADIATION ; WARMTH ; DEPENDENCE |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/182987 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | George Mason Univ, Ctr Ocean Land Atmosphere Studies, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Erfani, Ehsan,Burls, Natalie J.. The Strength of Low-Cloud Feedbacks and Tropical Climate: A CESM Sensitivity Study[J]. JOURNAL OF CLIMATE,2019,32(9):2497-2516. |
APA | Erfani, Ehsan,&Burls, Natalie J..(2019).The Strength of Low-Cloud Feedbacks and Tropical Climate: A CESM Sensitivity Study.JOURNAL OF CLIMATE,32(9),2497-2516. |
MLA | Erfani, Ehsan,et al."The Strength of Low-Cloud Feedbacks and Tropical Climate: A CESM Sensitivity Study".JOURNAL OF CLIMATE 32.9(2019):2497-2516. |
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