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Review article
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20 Oct 2016
Review article |
| 20 Oct 2016
Are atmospheric updrafts a key to unlocking climate forcing and sensitivity?
NOAA/GFDL, Princeton University Forrestal Campus, 201 Forrestal
Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
Travis A. O'Brien
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, and University of California, Davis, California, USA
Daniel Rieger
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Bernhard Vogel
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
William F. Cooke
UCAR/GFDL, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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Uncertainties in both climate forcing and sensitivity limit the extent to which climate projections can meet society's needs for actionable climate science. Advances in observing and modeling atmospheric vertical velocities provide a potential breakthrough in understanding climate forcing and sensitivity, with concurrent reductions in uncertainty.
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