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    The Impact of Cloud Feedbacks on Arctic Climate under Greenhouse Forcing

    Source: Journal of Climate:;2004:;volume( 017 ):;issue: 003::page 603
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    Vavrus, Steve
    DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0603:TIOCFO>2.0.CO;2
    Publisher: American Meteorological Society
    Abstract: The simulation of Arctic cloud cover and the sensitivity of Arctic climate to cloud changes are investigated using an atmosphere?mixed-layer ocean GCM (GENESIS2). The model is run with and without changes in three-dimensional cloud fraction under 2 ? CO2 radiative forcing. This model was chosen in part because of its relatively successful representation of modern Arctic cloud cover, a trait attributable to the parameterized treatment of mixed-phase microphysics. Simulated modern Arctic cloud fraction is insensitive to model biases in surface boundary conditions (SSTs and sea ice distribution), but the modeled Arctic climate is sensitive to high-frequency cloud variability. When forced with increased CO2 the model generally simulates more (less) vertically integrated cloudiness in high (low) latitudes. In the simulation without cloud feedbacks, cloud fraction is fixed at its modern control value at all grid points and all levels while CO2 is doubled. Compared with this fixed-cloud experiment, the simulated cloud changes enhance greenhouse warming at all latitudes, accounting for one-third of the global warming signal. This positive feedback is most pronounced in the Arctic, where approximately 40% of the warming is due to cloud changes. The strong cloud feedback in the Arctic is caused not only by local processes but also by cloud changes in lower latitudes, where positive top-of-the-atmosphere cloud radiative forcing anomalies are larger. The extra radiative energy gained in lower latitudes is transported dynamically to the Arctic via moist static energy flux convergence. The results presented here demonstrate the importance of remote impacts from low and midlatitudes for Arctic climate change.
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    contributor authorVavrus, Steve
    date accessioned2017-06-09T16:17:22Z
    date available2017-06-09T16:17:22Z
    date copyright2004/02/01
    date issued2004
    identifier issn0894-8755
    identifier otherams-6507.pdf
    identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4206256
    description abstractThe simulation of Arctic cloud cover and the sensitivity of Arctic climate to cloud changes are investigated using an atmosphere?mixed-layer ocean GCM (GENESIS2). The model is run with and without changes in three-dimensional cloud fraction under 2 ? CO2 radiative forcing. This model was chosen in part because of its relatively successful representation of modern Arctic cloud cover, a trait attributable to the parameterized treatment of mixed-phase microphysics. Simulated modern Arctic cloud fraction is insensitive to model biases in surface boundary conditions (SSTs and sea ice distribution), but the modeled Arctic climate is sensitive to high-frequency cloud variability. When forced with increased CO2 the model generally simulates more (less) vertically integrated cloudiness in high (low) latitudes. In the simulation without cloud feedbacks, cloud fraction is fixed at its modern control value at all grid points and all levels while CO2 is doubled. Compared with this fixed-cloud experiment, the simulated cloud changes enhance greenhouse warming at all latitudes, accounting for one-third of the global warming signal. This positive feedback is most pronounced in the Arctic, where approximately 40% of the warming is due to cloud changes. The strong cloud feedback in the Arctic is caused not only by local processes but also by cloud changes in lower latitudes, where positive top-of-the-atmosphere cloud radiative forcing anomalies are larger. The extra radiative energy gained in lower latitudes is transported dynamically to the Arctic via moist static energy flux convergence. The results presented here demonstrate the importance of remote impacts from low and midlatitudes for Arctic climate change.
    publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
    titleThe Impact of Cloud Feedbacks on Arctic Climate under Greenhouse Forcing
    typeJournal Paper
    journal volume17
    journal issue3
    journal titleJournal of Climate
    identifier doi10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0603:TIOCFO>2.0.CO;2
    journal fristpage603
    journal lastpage615
    treeJournal of Climate:;2004:;volume( 017 ):;issue: 003
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