期刊
JOURNAL OF METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH
卷 34, 期 4, 页码 865-878出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s13351-020-9204-9
关键词
Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model (BCC-CSM); climate sensitivity; cloud feedback; sea ice-albedo feedback; Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6)
资金
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFA0602602, 2017YFA0603503]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41605057]
Climate sensitivity represents the response of climate system to doubled CO(2)concentration relative to the preindustrial level, which is one of the sources of uncertainty in climate projections. It is unclear how the climate sensitivity and feedbacks will change as a model system is upgraded from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) to CMIP6. In this paper, we address this issue by comparing two versions of the Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model (BCC-CSM) participating in CMIP6 and CMIP5, i.e., BCC-CSM2-MR and BCC-CSM1.1m, which have the same horizontal resolution but different physical parameterizations. The results show that the equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) of BCC-CSM slightly increases from CMIP5 (2.94 K) to CMIP6 (3.04 K). The small changes in the ECS result from compensation between decreased effective radiative forcing (ERF) and the increased net feedback. In contrast, the transient climate response (TCR) evidently decreases from 2.19 to 1.40 K, nearly the lower bound of the CMIP6 multimodel spread. The low TCR in BCC-CSM2-MR is mainly caused by the small ERF overly even though the ocean heat uptake (OHU) efficiency is substantially improved from that in BCC-CSM1.1m. Cloud shortwave feedback (lambda(SWCL)) is found to be the major cause of the increased net feedback in BCC-CSM2-MR, mainly over the Southern Ocean. The strong positive lambda(SWCL)in BCC-CSM2-MR is coincidently related to the weakened sea ice-albedo feedback in the same region. This result is caused by reduced sea ice coverage simulated during the preindustrial cold season, which leads to reduced melting per 1-K global warming. As a result, in BCC-CSM2-MR, reduced surface heat flux and strengthened static stability of the planetary boundary layer cause a decrease in low-level clouds and an increase in incident shortwave radiation. This study reveals the important compensation between lambda(SWCL)and sea ice-albedo feedback in the Southern Ocean.
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