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Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks: Advances and New Paradigms I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
3006 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Alexandra K Jonko, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Mark D Zelinka, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Brian H Kahn, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Andrew E Dessler, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX, United States
Chairs:  Alexandra K Jonko, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Andrew E Dessler, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Mark D Zelinka, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
16:00
What we (don’t) know about radiative forcing and what this implies for feedback studies (Invited) (67081)
Robert Pincus, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
16:15
The impact of aerosols on forcing and feedbacks in CMIP5 (Invited) (58218)
Brian Soden, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
16:30
16:45
Characterizing the Transient Climate Change to Solar and CO2 Forcing Using the Framework of Rapid Adjustment and Slow Feedback (77978)
Long Cao, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States and Govindasamy Bala, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
17:00
Robust Effects of Ocean Heat Uptake on Radiative Feedback and Subtropical Cloud Cover: A Study Using Radiative Kernels (65053)
Lance Rayborn, SUNY at Albany, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States and Brian E J Rose, University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States
17:15
Feedbacks, climate sensitivity, and the limits of linear models (61890)
Reto Knutti and Maria Rugenstein, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
17:30
Pliocene Constraints on Earth System Senstivity (67008)
Alan Haywood1, Aisling M Dolan2, Stephen J Hunter2, Lianne Harrison2, Daniel J Hill2, Fergus Howell2, Caroline Prescott2 and Julia Claire Tindall3, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom
17:45
Tuning the climate sensitivity of a global model to match 20th Century warming (Invited) (71628)
Thorsten Mauritsen and Erich Roeckner, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
 
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