A14A:
Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks: Advances and New Paradigms I

Session ID#: 2715

Monday, 15 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3012 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Mark D Zelinka, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Andrew E Dessler, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX, United States
Primary Convener:  Mark D Zelinka, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Brian H Kahn, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1620 Climate dynamics [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3359 Radiative processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A14A-01
Adjusting Views on Climate Sensitivity for a More Complete Understanding of Its Uncertainty (Invited) (5705)
Piers Forster, University of Leeds, Priestley International Centre for Climate, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
A14A-02
Spatial Patterns of Radiative Forcing and Surface Temperature Response (18441)
Drew T Shindell, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, United States
A14A-03
How do global climate feedbacks differ across timescales? (14773)
Robert Colman1, Scott Power2, Josephine Brown3 and Lawson Hanson1, (1)Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (2)Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia, (3)University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
A14A-04
Interacting Components of the Top-of-Atmosphere Energy Balance Affect Changes in Regional Surface Temperature (Invited) (6036)
Timothy M Merlis, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
A14A-05
Coupling between climate feedbacks and large-scale circulation (Invited) (19049)
Nicole Feldl, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Simona Bordoni, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
A14A-06
Robust Increase in Effective Climate Sensitivity with Transient Warming in CMIP5 Simulations (Invited) (4928)
Kyle Armour, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
A14A-07
On Reducing the Uncertainty of High Climate Sensitivity (27058)
Jonah Bloch-Johnson, National Centre for Atmospheric Research, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom and Raymond Pierrehumbert, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
A14A-08
The Lower Uncertainty Bound of Climate Sensitivity in Gcms: How Low Can We Go?... (5256)
Richard Millar1, Sarah Sparrow1, David Sexton2, Jason A. Lowe3, William Ingram1,4 and Myles Robert Allen5, (1)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)Met Office, Hadley Centre for Climate Science and Services, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (5)University of Oxford, ECI/School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom
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