Climate sensitivity and thermal inertia

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Aug 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002georl..29o...2w&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 15, pp. 2-1, CiteID 1707, DOI 10.1029/2002GL014864

Physics

Global Change: Climate Dynamics (3309), Global Change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325), Global Change: Oceans (4203), Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Climatology (1620), Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Theoretical Modeling

Scientific paper

We compare several Atmosphere/Ocean General Circulation model control runs by fitting long control runs to a simple discrete (annual averages) stochastic model: Rate of change of global heat content = difference of absorbed and emitted radiation + white noise. If the heat content is taken to be proportional to the surface temperature we can estimate the effective (broad frequency-band averaged) heat capacity for the system by a regression procedure. We find a wide range of effective heat capacities that correlate significantly with the published sensitivities of the models. Models with large sensitivities have large thermal inertia. Several interpretations are discussed.

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