Differences in observed and modeled sea surface temperature variability lead to large differences in inferred climate sensitivity.
Cristian Proistosescu1,2, Yue Dong3, Malte F Stuecker4, Robert Jnglin Wills5, Kyle Armour6 and David S Battisti3, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States, (2)University of Washington, Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Seattle, United States, (3)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, International Pacific Research Center and Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, United States, (5)ETH Zürich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zürich, Switzerland, (6)University of Washington, Deptartment of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States