Inconsistency of Modeled and Observed Tropical Temperature Trends
| Autor: | S. Fred Singer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Troposphere
Environmental Engineering Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Consistency (statistics) Atmospheric circulation Climatology Global warming Energy Engineering and Power Technology Climate sensitivity Environmental science Limiting Atmospheric sciences Energy (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | Energy & Environment. 24:405-413 |
| ISSN: | 2048-4070 0958-305X |
| DOI: | 10.1260/0958-305x.24.3-4.405 |
| Popis: | Consistency or lack thereof between observed temperature trends and those predicted by Global Circulation Models (GCMs) are a contentious though important issue. The lack of consistency between observed and modeled temperature trends has frequently been used to argue against a significant human contribution to global warming – and vice versa. We present here additional and independent evidence that there is no agreement between observed and modeled warming trends in the tropical troposphere during the last two decades of the 20th century. This finding is shown to put constraints on surface trend and Climate Sensitivity, limiting them to values close to zero. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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