An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence

SC Sherwood, MJ Webb, JD Annan… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We assess evidence relevant to Earth's equilibrium climate sensitivity per doubling of
atmospheric CO2, characterized by an effective sensitivity S. This evidence includes …

Progressing emergent constraints on future climate change

A Hall, P Cox, C Huntingford, S Klein - Nature Climate Change, 2019 - nature.com
In recent years, an evaluation technique for Earth System Models (ESMs) has arisen—
emergent constraints (ECs)—which rely on strong statistical relationships between aspects …

Taking climate model evaluation to the next level

V Eyring, PM Cox, GM Flato, PJ Gleckler… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Earth system models are complex and represent a large number of processes, resulting in a
persistent spread across climate projections for a given future scenario. Owing to different …

Climate model Selection by Independence, Performance, and Spread (ClimSIPS v1. 0.1) for regional applications

AL Merrifield, L Brunner, R Lorenz… - Geoscientific Model …, 2023 - gmd.copernicus.org
As the number of models in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) archives
increase from generation to generation, there is a pressing need for guidance on how to …

[HTML][HTML] Emergent constraints on equilibrium climate sensitivity in CMIP5: do they hold for CMIP6?

M Schlund, A Lauer, P Gentine… - Earth System …, 2020 - esd.copernicus.org
An important metric for temperature projections is the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS),
which is defined as the global mean surface air temperature change caused by a doubling …

The South Atlantic subtropical anticyclone: present and future climate

MS Reboita, T Ambrizzi, BA Silva, RF Pinheiro… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The South Atlantic Subtropical Anticyclone (SASA) is the main feature of the atmospheric
circulation over the South Atlantic Ocean, and its study is of great importance to explain …

Emergent constraints on climate sensitivities

MS Williamson, CW Thackeray, PM Cox, A Hall… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Despite major advances in climate science over the last 30 years, persistent uncertainties in
projections of future climate change remain. Climate projections are produced with …

Reducing uncertainties in climate projections with emergent constraints: Concepts, examples and prospects

F Brient - Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Models disagree on a significant number of responses to climate change, such as
climate feedback, regional changes, or the strength of equilibrium climate sensitivity …

Evaluating emergent constraints on equilibrium climate sensitivity

PM Caldwell, MD Zelinka, SA Klein - Journal of Climate, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Emergent constraints are quantities that are observable from current measurements and
have skill predicting future climate. This study explores 19 previously proposed emergent …

Future precipitation increase constrained by climatological pattern of cloud effect

W Zhou, LR Leung, N Siler, J Lu - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
The fractional increase in global mean precipitation (△ P¯/P¯) is a first-order measure of the
hydrological cycle intensification under anthropogenic warming. However,△ P¯/P¯ varies …