How Well Do We Understand and Evaluate Climate Change Feedback Processes

By Sandrine Bony, R. Colman, V. Kattsov, Richard P. Allan, Chris Bretherton, J. Dufresne, A. Hall, StÃ©phane Hallegatte, Marika M. Holland, W. Ingram and 4 more. 2006

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Estimating the social cost of non-CO2 GHG emissions: Methane and nitrous oxide (2012, methodology): “Uncertainty surrounding equilibrium climate sensitivity stems in part from uncertainty regarding the magnitude of the climate feedbacks associated with global warming (Bony et al., 2006).”
Tropospheric water vapor, convection, and climate (2010, background): “Meanwhile, vapor molecules constantly collide with and stick to the surface at a rate that depends on the vapor pressure.”
Uncertainty in Model Climate Sensitivity Traced to Representations of Cumulus Precipitation Microphysics (2016, background): “…Harshvardhan 1987; Roeckner et al. 1987; Mitchell et al. 1989; Cess et al. 1990; Senior andMitchell 1993; Bony et al. 2004; Bony and Dufresne 2005; Bony et al. 2006; Stephens 2005; Wyant et al. 2006; Webb et al. 2006; Soden and Held 2006; Dufresne and Bony 2008; Webb et al. 2013; Zelinka et al.…”
Equilibrium Response of an Atmosphere–Mixed Layer Ocean Model to Different Radiative Forcing Agents: Global and Zonal Mean Response (2008, methodology): “2005b,a; Bony et al. 2006; Soden and Held 2006; Taylor et al. 2007). We choose to use the so-called partial radiative perturbation (PRP) method pioneered by Wetherald and Manabe (1988) and applied to multiple models for an intercomparison study by Colman (2003). Since this method has been used repea”
The role of cloud phase in Earth's radiation budget (2017, background): “The role of low cloud feedback over the Southern Ocean, for example, is a significant source of bias and disagreement among GCMs [Bony et al., 2006; Vial et al., 2013].”
What caused Earths temperature variations during the last 800,000 years? Data-based evidences on radiative forcing and constraints on climate sensitivity (2009, result): “The strength of these feedbacks might be in a first guess estimated from recent observations and model-based studies (Bony et al., 2006; Soden and Held, 2006; Andrews and Forster, 2008; Dufresne and Bony, 2008; Soden et al., 2008).”
The end of model democracy? (2010, methodology): “So we have to establish credibility of the models by evaluating them on present-day climatology, variability, past anthropogenic trends, paleoclimate or by evaluating processes ( Bony et al. 2006; Knutti”
Cloud feedback mechanisms and their representation in global climate models (2017, neutral): “Shifts in Midlatitude Circulation with Global Warming Atmospheric circulation is a key control on cloud structure and radiative properties.(157) Because current GCMs predict systematic shifts of subtropical and Advanced Review wires.”
Atmospheric and Surface Contributions to Planetary Albedo (2011, background): “…attenuation despite the large meridional variations in cloud properties; this is partly because solar radiation is attenuated by clear-sky processes (i.e., solar atmospheric absorption), which contribute as much as 50% of the atmospheric attenuation in the global mean (Bony et al. 2006).”
An Assessment of the Primary Sources of Spread of Global Warming Estimates from Coupled Atmosphere–Ocean Models (2008, background): “In this approach it is assumed that everything is linear (see for instance the appendix of Bony et al. (2006) for more details on this approach and for a discussion of the approximations).”
Using the Radiative Kernel Technique to Calculate Climate Feedbacks in NCAR's Community Atmospheric Model (2008, background): “…in state-of-the-art climate models, along with improving our understanding of the physical feedback mechanisms and developing techniques to compare modeled feedbacks to observations, will lead to better climate models and, ultimately, improved estimates of the future climate (Bony et al. 2006).”
Evaluating Emergent Constraints on Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (2018, background): “See Bony et al. (2006) for a primer on these feedback mechanisms.”
Why is longwave cloud feedback positive (2010, background): “Bony et al. [2006] point out several reasons why progress has been slow in evaluating cloud feedbacks and narrowing this range.”