期刊
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
卷 121, 期 6, 页码 2780-2789出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD024569
关键词
radiative forcing; greenhouse gas; carbon dioxide; cloud radiative forcing; energy transport; climate model
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada
- Fonds de recherche Nature et technologies of Quebec
- Chinese Scholarship Council
- Quebec-China Postdoctoral Fellowship of Fonds de Recherche du Quebec-Nature et Technologies
Radiative forcing of a homogeneous greenhouse gas (HGG) can be very inhomogeneous because the forcing is dependent on other atmospheric and surface variables. In the case of doubling CO2, the monthly mean instantaneous forcing at the top of the atmosphere is found to vary geographically and temporally from positive to negative values, with the range (-2.5-5.1Wm(-2)) being more than 3 times the magnitude of the global mean value (2.3Wm(-2)). The vertical temperature change across the atmospheric column (temperature lapse rate) is found to be the best single predictor for explaining forcing variation. In addition, the masking effects of clouds and water vapor also contribute to forcing inhomogeneity. A regression model that predicts forcing from geophysical variables is constructed. This model can explain more than 90% of the variance of the forcing. Applying this model to analyzing the forcing variation in the Climate Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 models, we find that intermodel discrepancy in CO2 forcing caused by model climatology leads to considerable discrepancy in their projected change in poleward energy transport.
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