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Climate sensitivity from both physical and carbon cycle feedbacks

Climate sensitivity from both physical and carbon cycle feedbacks
Climate sensitivity from both physical and carbon cycle feedbacks
The surface warming response to anthropogenic forcing is highly sensitive to the strength of feedbacks in both the physical climate and carbon-cycle systems. However, the definitions of climate feedback, λClimate in Wm-2K-1, and climate sensitivity, SClimate in K[Wm-2]-1, explicitly exclude the impact of carbon-cycle feedbacks. Here, we provide a new framework to incorporate carbon feedback into the definitions of climate feedback and sensitivity. Applying our framework to the Global Carbon Budget reconstructions reveals a present-day terrestrial carbon feedback of λCarbon=0.31±0.09 Wm-2K-1 and an ocean carbon feedback of -0.06 to 0.015 Wm-2K-1 in Earth system models. Observational constraints reveal a combined climate and carbon feedback of λClimate+Carbon=1.48 Wm-2K-1 with a 95% range of 0.76 to 2.32 Wm-2K-1 on centennial timescales, corresponding to a combined climate and carbon sensitivity of SClimate+Carbon=0.67 K[Wm-2]-1 with a 95% range of 0.43 to 1.32 K[Wm-2]-1.
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Goodwin, Philip
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Goodwin, Philip, Williams, Richard, Roussenov, Vassil and Katavouta, Anna (2019) Climate sensitivity from both physical and carbon cycle feedbacks. Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (13), 7554-7564. (doi:10.1029/2019GL082887).

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The surface warming response to anthropogenic forcing is highly sensitive to the strength of feedbacks in both the physical climate and carbon-cycle systems. However, the definitions of climate feedback, λClimate in Wm-2K-1, and climate sensitivity, SClimate in K[Wm-2]-1, explicitly exclude the impact of carbon-cycle feedbacks. Here, we provide a new framework to incorporate carbon feedback into the definitions of climate feedback and sensitivity. Applying our framework to the Global Carbon Budget reconstructions reveals a present-day terrestrial carbon feedback of λCarbon=0.31±0.09 Wm-2K-1 and an ocean carbon feedback of -0.06 to 0.015 Wm-2K-1 in Earth system models. Observational constraints reveal a combined climate and carbon feedback of λClimate+Carbon=1.48 Wm-2K-1 with a 95% range of 0.76 to 2.32 Wm-2K-1 on centennial timescales, corresponding to a combined climate and carbon sensitivity of SClimate+Carbon=0.67 K[Wm-2]-1 with a 95% range of 0.43 to 1.32 K[Wm-2]-1.

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Accepted/In Press date: 12 June 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 22 June 2019
Published date: 16 July 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 431840
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/431840
ISSN: 0094-8276
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ORCID for Philip Goodwin: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2575-8948

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Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 07:56

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Author: Philip Goodwin ORCID iD
Author: Richard Williams
Author: Vassil Roussenov
Author: Anna Katavouta

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