PCIC science brief: On cloud-circulation coupling and climate sensitivity

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dc.contributor.authorPacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-24T19:28:18Z
dc.date.available2025-01-24T19:28:18Z
dc.date.issued2023-06
dc.description.abstractOne of the key uncertainties in climate model simulations has to do with the response of low-lying marine clouds to increasing temperatures. A recent paper in the journal Nature uses a mix of radar, lidar and data from atmospheric probes to test one of the mechanisms by which cloud cover is projected to be reduced under climate change. Their findings show that this mechanism is not evident in the trade wind regions, which suggests that might not occur in nature. This further suggests that the most extreme estimates of the climate's response to greenhouse gas emissions are less likely than earlier research suggests. Here we discuss what these results tell us about changes to the Earth's sensitivity to greenhouse gas emissions and what this may mean for our province.
dc.description.reviewstatusUnreviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/21021
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)
dc.subject#science brief
dc.subjectUN SDG 13: Climate Action
dc.subjectPacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC)
dc.titlePCIC science brief: On cloud-circulation coupling and climate sensitivity
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