Climate sensitivity is a term used to characterize the response of the climate system to an imposed forcing, and is most commonly used to mean the equilibrium global mean surface temperature change that occurs in response to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. The purpose of this workshop was to explore current capabilities and limitations in quantifying climate sensitivity and consider whether there are alternative approaches for characterizing climate response that might better suit the information needs of policy makers.
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- WORKSHOP STEERING COMMITTEE
- Ex Officio Members
- NRC Staff
- APPENDIX D: INVITED SPEAKERS’ BIOGRAPHICAL INFOR
- JERRY MAHLMAN
- JANE LEGGETT
- TOM WIGLEY
- Discussion
- VENKATCHALAM RAMASWAMY
- Discussion
- ANTHONY BROCCOLI
- PETER STONE
- Discussion
- JONATHAN GREGORY
- Discussion
- NATALIA ANDRONOVA
- Discussion
- EUGENE RASMUSSON
- WILLIAM COLLINS
- VENKATCHALAM RAMASWAMY
- MICHAEL PRATHER
- Discussion
- JOYCE PENNER
- Determining climate sensitivity by fitting the observational temperature record requires specifying radiative forcing from aerosols. Most climate models currently consider only forcing from fossil fuel sulfate aerosols. Ultimately, however, one has to
- The summary points are the following:
- Discussion
- JONATHAN GREGORY
- Discussion
- PETER STONE
- Discussion
- MICHAEL SCHLESINGER
- The climate sensitivity needed to reproduce the observed changes in near-surface temperature from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present is inversely proportional to the magnitude of the radiative forcing at the top of the atmosphere (or tr
- Discussion
- MICHAEL MANN
- Discussion
- RICHARD MOSS
- ROSINA BIERBAUM
- Some questions about climate sensitivity that are of interest to policy makers, but are not yet clearly answered by the scientific community include:
- TOM WIGLEY
- A REMAINING CHALLENGE IS CONSTRAINING THE HIGH END OF THE PDF FOR CLIMATE SENSITIVITY
- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
- WORKSHOP AGENDA
- INVITED SPEAKERS