An important constraint on tropical cloud ‐ climate feedback

By D. Hartmann, Kristin Larson. 2002

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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How Well Do We Understand and Evaluate Climate Change Feedback Processes (2006, background): “Hartmann and Larson (2002) proposed that the emission temperature of tropical anvil clouds is essentially independent of the surface temperature, and that it will thus remain unchanged during climate change [the socalled fixed anvil temperature (FAT) hypothesis].”
Radiation balance of the tropical tropopause layer (2004, background): “The water vapor distribution, which is affected by temperature, determines the level of Qclear =0 . O3 and CO2 act to heat the TTL and lower the level of Qclear = 0. The level of Qclear = 0 appears to be nearly constant in temperature, consistent with Hartmann and Larson [2002] , though observation”
Robust increase in equilibrium climate sensitivity under global warming (2013, background): “A rising tropopause is a robust feature of climate models [O’Gorman and Singh, 2013], dictated by thermal emission from water vapor becoming less important below a temperature of about 200 K [Hartmann and Larson, 2002].”
Computing and Partitioning Cloud Feedbacks Using Cloud Property Histograms. Part II: Attribution to Changes in Cloud Amount, Altitude, and Optical Depth (2012, background): “That the contribution of rising cloud tops is slightly 319 larger than the contribution of decreasing cloud amount is an important result because one 320 could argue that fundamental constraints exist on cloud altitude and its changes, namely, the 321 location of radiatively-driven divergence in the”
An Analytical Model for Tropical Relative Humidity (2014, background): “Since first proposed by Hartmann and Larson (2002), this fixed-anvil-temperature (FAT) hypothesis has been demonstrated in cloud-resolving models (Kuang and Hartmann 2007; Harrop and Hartmann 2012).”
Causes of Higher Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6 Models (2020, background): “…a better qualitative match with theoretical, observational, and/or high-resolution modeling evidence for positive high cloud altitude feedback (Hartmann & Larson, 2002; Kuang & Hartmann, 2007; Thompson et al., 2017; Zelinka & Hartmann, 2011), positive tropical low cloud feedback (Bretherton,…”
Deep Convective System Evolution over Africa and the Tropical Atlantic (2007, background): “However, the response of these systems to a climate perturbation is highly uncertain, with numerous, sometimes contradictory, potential mechanisms proposed in recent years (Ramanathan and Collins 1991; Chou and Neelin 1999; Lindzen et al. 2001; Hartmann and Larson 2002; Del Genio et al. 2005).”
Tropospheric water vapor, convection, and climate (2010, background): “It is primarily the increase in upper tropospheric humidity accompanying warming, rather than, say, CO2 increases, that is expected to shift the profile of tropospheric radiative cooling upward and therefore also the vertical extent of convective overturning in the warmer climate [Hartmann and Larso”
Forcing and feedback in the MPI‐ESM‐LR coupled model under abruptly quadrupled CO2 (2013, result): “This feature is in agreement with the fixed anvil temperature (FAT) hypothesis from Hartmann and Larson [2002] that the temperature emission of tropical anvil clouds stays nearly constant during climate change, constituting a positive longwave cloud feedback.”
Emergent Constraints for Cloud Feedbacks (2015, unknown): “between tropical high-cloud altitude and the vertical profile of clear sky radiative cooling might form the basis for an emergent constraint [15].”
Cloud Feedbacks in the Climate System: A Critical Review (2005, background): “…of supergreenhouse effects over high SSTs are also regions of significantly increased radiative cooling of the atmosphere in the absence of clouds implying that this increased cooling supports convection via atmospheric destabilization effects (e.g., Hartmann and Larson 2002; Stephens et al. 2004).”
The vertical distribution of cloud feedback in coupled ocean‐atmosphere models (2011, result): “Zelinka and Hartmann [2010] have shown that model predictions for high clouds are consistent with the “Proportionately Higher Anvil Temperature” (PHAT) hypothesis – a modification of the “Fixed Anvil Temperature” hypothesis originally proposed by Hartmann and Larson [2002] .”
Global Warming and the Weakening of the Tropical Circulation (2007, background): “by Hartmann and Larson (2002), Larson and Hartmann”
Rotating radiative‐convective equilibrium simulated by a cloud‐resolving model (2013, result): “This result is consistent with the Fixed Anvil Temperature (FAT) hypothesis proposed by Hartmann and Larson [2002] for tropical deep convection.”