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Better-constrained climate sensitivity when accounting for dataset dependency on pattern effect estimates
Angshuman Modak
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Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Interdisciplinary Program in Climate Studies, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
Thorsten Mauritsen
Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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We provide an improved estimate of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) constrained based on the instrumental temperature record including the corrections for the pattern effect. The improved estimate factors in the uncertainty caused by the underlying sea-surface temperature datasets used in the estimates of pattern effect. This together with the inter-model spread lifts the corresponding IPCC AR6 estimate to 3.2 K [1.8 to 11.0], which is lower and better constrained than in past studies.
We provide an improved estimate of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) constrained based on...
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