Fast Cloud Adjustment to Increasing CO2 in a Superparameterized Climate Model

Two-year simulation experiments with a superparameterized climate model, SP-CAM, are performed to understand the fast tropical (30S-30N) cloud response to an instantaneous quadrupling of CO2 concentration with SST held fixed at present-day values.The greenhouse effect of the CO2 perturbation quickly...

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Main Authors: Marat Khairoutdinov, Peter N Blossey, Christopher S Bretherton, Matthew C Wyant
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2012-05-01
Series:Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
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Online Access:http://www.agu.org/journals/ms/ms1205/2011MS000092/