Changes in Cloud Radiation-Precipitation Feedbacks in Response to Warming
Abstract
We have designed a set of radiative-convective equilibrium experiments using the Community Atmosphere Model with Super-Parameterization (SP-CAM). These aqua-planet simulations are run with a uniform sea surface temperature (SST) and spatially and temporally uniform incident solar radiation, both with and without cloud-radiative effects and with and without rotation for a range of SSTs from 280 K to 305 K. These results, in conjunction with CMIP5 climate projections, are analyzed with a focus on the temperature-dependence of cloud radiation-precipitation feedbacks and the role of convective self-aggregation.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFM.A51N2795N
- Keywords:
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- 3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks;
- ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES;
- 3314 Convective processes;
- ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES;
- 3319 General circulation;
- ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES;
- 1616 Climate variability;
- GLOBAL CHANGE