The Role of Climate Sensitivity and Ocean Heat Uptake on AOGCM Transient Temperature Response

By S. Raper, J. Gregory, R. Stouffer. 2002

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Importance of Ocean Heat Uptake Efficacy to Transient Climate Change (2010, methodology): “Following Gregory and Mitchell (1997) and Raper et al. (2002) and noting the intermodel correlation of N and TCR, we make use of the ocean heat uptake efficiency, g, defined by N 5 gT. (14) Note that efficiency represents ocean mixing processes while efficacy represents radiative processes in…”
• Climate Change Projections for the Twenty-First Century and Climate Change Commitment in the CCSM3 (2006, background): “Thus, in addition to changes in the meridional overturning circulation, the strength of the mean circulation also plays a role (Raper et al. 2002; Stouffer 2004; Meehl et al. 2004c).”
• Transient Climate Response in a Two-Layer Energy-Balance Model. Part I: Analytical Solution and Parameter Calibration Using CMIP5 AOGCM Experiments (2013, methodology): “Still, t f is longer than the characteristic time scale of the one-layer model with the deep-ocean heat-uptake formulation of Gregory and Mitchell (1997) and Raper et al. (2002) that is the limit of t f when C 0 tends toward infinity t f .”
• Time-Varying Climate Sensitivity from Regional Feedbacks (2012, background): “The uptake of heat by the deep ocean strongly influences transient warming by acting as a sink of energy at the surface (e.g., Raper et al. 2002).”
• Observations, inferences, and mechanisms of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review (2016, background): “Moreover, analyses suggest that differences in ocean heat uptake may explain a significant portion of the large intermodel spread in simulated warming [Raper et al., 2002; Boé et al., 2009; Hansen et al., 2011; Kuhlbrodt and Gregory, 2012; Geoffroy et al., 2013a, 2013b].”
• The dependence of transient climate sensitivity and radiative feedbacks on the spatial pattern of ocean heat uptake (2014, background): “Ocean heat uptake (OHU) has long been recognized as critical in setting the pace of18 climate change [Hansen et al., 1985; Raper et al., 2002].”
• How Much Warming are We Committed to and How Much can be Avoided? (2006, background): “Although not fully explained physically it appears to be quite a robust property of the system (Hansen et al., 1985; Raper et al., 2002).”
• Transient Climate Response in a Two-Layer Energy-Balance Model. Part II: Representation of the Efficacy of Deep-Ocean Heat Uptake and Validation for CMIP5 AOGCMs (2013, methodology): “Raper et al. (2002) suggested a negative correlation between their heat-exchange coefficient k of the onelayer model (that is similar to the parameter g) and the radiative feedback parameter l but the analysis of CMIP3 models by Gregory and Forster (2008) and Plattner et al. (2008) did not find…”