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CLIMATE DYNAMICS
Volume 44, Issue 11-12, Pages 3111-3127Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2189-2
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Climate model simulations; Surface energy balance; Land-ocean contrast; Polar amplification; Seasonality change; Paleo/future simulations
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [ATM-0602409]
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Climate simulations show consistent large-scale temperature responses including amplified landocean contrast, high-latitude/low-latitude contrast, and changes in seasonality in response to year-round forcing, in both warm and cold climates, and these responses are proportional and nearly linear across multiple climate states. We examine the possibility that a small set of common mechanisms controls these large-scale responses using a simple energy-balance model to decompose the temperature changes shown in multiple lgm and abrupt4 x CO2 simulations from the CMIP5 archive. Changes in the individual components of the energy balance are broadly consistent across the models. Although several components are involved in the overall temperature responses, surface downward clear-sky longwave radiation is the most important component driving land-ocean contrast and high-latitude amplification in both warm and cold climates. Surface albedo also plays a significant role in promoting high-latitude amplification in both climates and in intensifying the land-ocean contrast in the warm climatecase. The change in seasonality is a consequence of the changes in land-ocean and high-latitude/low-latitude contrasts rather than an independent temperature response. This is borne out by the fact that no single component stands out as being the major cause of the change in seasonality, and the relative importance of individual components is different in cold and warm climates.
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