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A comparison of the behavior of different AOGCMs in transient climate change experiments

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dc.contributor Sokolov, Andrei P.
dc.contributor Forest, Chris Eliot.
dc.contributor Stone, Peter H.
dc.date 2003-10-24T14:55:53Z
dc.date 2003-10-24T14:55:53Z
dc.date 2001-12
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-09T02:31:05Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-09T02:31:05Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-09
dc.identifier no. 81
dc.identifier http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/abstracts.html#a81
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3564
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721
dc.description The transient response of both surface air temperature and deep ocean temperature to an increasing external forcing strongly depends on climate sensitivity and the rate of the heat mixing into the deep ocean, estimates for both of which have large uncertainty. In this paper we describe a method for estimating rates of oceanic heat uptake for coupled atmosphere/ocean general circulation models from results of transient climate change simulations. For models considered in this study, the estimates vary more than threefold. Nevertheless, values for all models fall in the 5-95% interval of the range implied by the climate record for the last century. The MIT 2D climate model, with an appropriate choice of parameters, matches changes in surface air temperature and sea level rise simulated by different models. It also reproduces the overall range of changes in precipitation.
dc.description Abstract in HTML and technical report in PDF available on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Website. (http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/)
dc.description Includes bibliographical references (p. 12-14).
dc.format 14 p.
dc.format 258327 bytes
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.publisher MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
dc.relation Report no. 81
dc.rights http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/abstracts.html#a81
dc.subject QC981.8.C5.M58 no.81
dc.title A comparison of the behavior of different AOGCMs in transient climate change experiments


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