Surface energy balances of three general circulation models: Current climate and response to increasing atmospheric CO[sub 2]
- 1 April 1988
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- Published by Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
Abstract
The surface energy balance simulated by state-of-the-art general circulation models at GFDL, GISS and NCAR for climates with current levels of atmospheric CO[sub 2] concentration (control climate) and with twice the current levels. The work is part of an effort sponsored by the US Department of Energy to assess climate simulations produced by these models. The surface energy balance enables us to diagnose differences between models in surface temperature climatology and sensitivity to doubling CO[sub 2] in terms of the processes that control surface temperature. Our analysis compares the simulated balances by averaging the fields of interest over a hierarchy of spatial domains ranging from the entire globe down to regions a few hundred kilometers across.Keywords
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