On the feedback of stratospheric clouds on polar climate

Details On the feedback of stratospheric clouds on polar climate On the feedback of stratospheric clouds on polar climate

Jun 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002georl..29k..51k&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 11, pp. 51-1, CiteID 1556, DOI 10.1029/2002GL014659

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Global Change: Climate Dynamics (3309), Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Stratosphere/Troposphere Interactions, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: General Circulation, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Paleoclimatology, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Middle Atmosphere-Composition And Chemistry

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Past climates, such as the Eocene (55 - 38 Ma), experienced dramatically warmer polar winters. Global climate models run with Eocene-like boundary conditions have under-predicted polar temperatures, a discrepancy which has stimulated a recent hypothesis that polar stratospheric clouds may have been important. We propose that such clouds form in response to higher CO2 via changes in stratospheric circulation and water content. We show that the absence of this mechanism from models of Eocene climate may be attributable to poor vertical resolution in the neighborhood of the tropical tropopause. This may cause the models to underestimate future greenhouse warming.

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