| Literature DB >> 17750262 |
R D Cess, G L Potter, J P Blanchet, G J Boer, S J Ghan, J T Kiehl, H LE Treut, Z X Li, X Z Liang, J F Mitchell, J J Morcrette, D A Randall, M R Riches, E Roeckner, U Schlese, A Slingo, K E Taylor, W M Washington, R T Wetherald, I Yagai.
Abstract
Understanding the cause of differences among general circulation model projections of carbon dioxide-induced climatic change is a necessary step toward improving the models. An intercomparison of 14 atmospheric general circulation models, for which sea surface temperature perturbations were used as a surrogate climate change, showed that there was a roughly threefold variation in global climate sensitivity. Most of this variation is attributable to differences in the models' depictions of cloud-climate feedback, a result that emphasizes the need for improvements in the treatment of clouds in these models if they are ultimately to be used as climatic predictors.Entities:
Year: 1989 PMID： 17750262 DOI： 10.1126/science.245.4917.513
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728