Clouds and the Atmospheric Circulation Response to Warming
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Clouds and the atmospheric circulation response to warming
We study the effect of clouds on the atmospheric circulation response to CO2 quadrupling in an aquaplanet model with a slab-ocean lower boundary. The cloud effect is isolated by locking the clouds to either the control or 4xCO2 state in the shortwave (SW) or longwave (LW) radiation schemes. In our model, cloud-radiative changes explain more than half of the total poleward expansion of the Hadle...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Climate
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0894-8755,1520-0442
DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-15-0394.1