Climate Models Underestimate Dynamic Cloud Feedbacks in the Tropics
Climate Models Underestimate Dynamic Cloud Feedbacks in the Tropics
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气候模型低估了热带地区的动态云反馈
DOI:
10.1029/2023gl104573
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Hill P
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Hill P
Cloud feedbacks are the leading cause of uncertainty in climate sensitivity. The complex coupling between clouds and the large‐scale circulation in the tropics contributes to this uncertainty. To address this problem, the coupling between clouds and circulation in the latest generation of climate models is compared to observations. Significant biases are identified in the models. The implications of these biases are assessed by combining observations of the present day with future changes predicted by models to calculate observationally constrained feedbacks. For the dynamic cloud feedback (i.e., due to changes in circulation), the observationally constrained values are consistently larger than the model‐only values. This is due to models failing to capture a nonlinear minimum in cloud brightness for weakly descending regimes. Consequently, while the models consistently predict that these regimes increase in frequency in association with a weakening tropical circulation, they underestimate the positive cloud feedback associated with this increase.
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影响因子:
16.6
作者:
Schiro, Kathleen A.;Su, Hui;Ahmed, Fiaz;Dai, Ni;Singer, Clare E.;Gentine, Pierre;Elsaesser, Gregory S.;Jiang, Jonathan H.;Choi, Yong-Sang;Neelin, J. David
通讯作者:
Neelin, J. David
影响因子:
5.1
作者:
Eyring, Veronika;Bony, Sandrine;Taylor, Karl E.
通讯作者:
Taylor, Karl E.
影响因子:
5.2
作者:
D. Konsta;J. Dufresne;H. Chepfer;J. Vial;T. Koshiro;Hideaki Kawai;A. Bodas‐Salcedo;R. Roehrig;Masahiro Watanabe;T. Ogura
通讯作者:
T. Ogura
DOI:
10.1029/2022jd038437
发表时间:
2023
期刊:
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
影响因子:
--
作者:
Nina Črnivec;Grégory Cesana;R. Pincus
通讯作者:
R. Pincus
影响因子:
4.6
作者:
Klein, Stephen A.;Hall, Alex;Pincus, Robert
通讯作者:
Pincus, Robert