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Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory {insert date here} July  16,  2012  

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Factors involved in the Global Heat Balance

•  Gradients in Temperature •  Amount and location of species (gases, aerosols

and clouds) •  Radiative (absorption, emission, reflection)

properties of species in the electromagnetic spectrum

•  Radiative properties of the surface

 Convection (arising due to differential heating of surface and atmosphere)

 Large-scale dynamical flows caused by planetary rotation, topography, and land-sea contrast

 FEEDBACKS [Water vapor, surface, clouds]

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Geophysical  Fluid  Dynamics  Laboratory   4  

AERONET

CM

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Relative difference (CM3-AERONET)/AERONET

CM3 < 1.5 AERONET in US East coast

CM3 < 2 over Mega-cities (e.g. Bangkok) CM3 ~ AERONET in biomass burning, dusty regions, India

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Geophysical  Fluid  Dynamics  Laboratory  

from Donner et al. (2011, J. Climate)

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Comparison of Clear-Sky SW @ TOA

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relates to feedbacks in the climate system

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IPCC (1994)

Forcing goes roughly as the logarithm of the increase in CO2. For methane, the forcing goes as the square root of the increase. For halocarbons, the forcing goes linear in concentration change.

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Ramanathan (J. Atmos. Sci., 1981)

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Forcing (preindustrial to present)

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Soden et al. [Science, 2005]

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15  Projected Climate Changes and Challenges

H2O vib-rot.

CO2

Window

O3

CH4

H2O rot

CO2

240-­‐year  end-­‐to-­‐end  difference  –  Red: <2000-2004> minus <1861-1865>

–  Blue: <2100-2104> minus <1861-1865>

–  Green: unforced natural variability

• Results: –  window regions – surface warming;

–  CO2 bands – stratospheric cooling; rise in tropos. emission level

(also O3 and CH4 bands);

–  H2O bands – atmospheric warming is compensated by water vapor feedbacks.

(2100-2104) – (1861-1865) Difference in Brightness Temperatures: 1860s to 2000s, and1860s to 2100s

[Huang and Ramaswamy, 2009]

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Climate  Sensi,vity  

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Geophysical  Fluid  Dynamics  Laboratory  

The  END  

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Sea Ice

Atmosphere

Ocean Land

… interact with each other

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Total Outgoing LW radiation ~ 240 W/m2

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Geophysical  Fluid  Dynamics  Laboratory  

RadiaBve  Forcing  Components  in  2005                        (since  preindustrial  Bmes,  ca.  1750)  

IPCC,  AR4,  2007    www.ipcc.ch  

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