Furtado, K., Tsushima, Y., Field, P.R. orcid.org/0000-0001-8528-0088 et al. (2 more authors) (2023) The Relationship Between the Present-Day Seasonal Cycles of Clouds in the Mid-Latitudes and Cloud-Radiative Feedback. Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (15). e2023GL103902. ISSN 0094-8276
Abstract
We show that the seasonal cycles of clouds over the mid-latitude oceans in the Northern Hemisphere are predictors of the responses of clouds to increasing sea-surface temperatures globally. These regions are therefore “natural laboratories” in which the processes responsible for low-cloud feedbacks on global scales are observed as seasonal changes in local cloud properties. We use an ensemble of configurations of a global-climate model to show that the sensitivities of cloud-radiative anomalies to surface temperature and lower-tropospheric stability in the “laboratory” regions predict the models' global cloud-radiative feedbacks. Models with greater changes in low-clouds between seasons are shown to have stronger negative feedbacks in the mid-latitudes, and stronger positive feedbacks from the subtropical stratocumulus. The biases in the simulated seasonal cycles, compared to observations, imply that both feedbacks are too weak in the model. The consequences of this for configuring our model to have a lower climate sensitivity are discussed.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 Crown copyright. This article is published with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the King's Printer for Scotland. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Inst for Climate & Atmos Science (ICAS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Sep 2023 11:32 |
Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 11:32 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Geophysical Union |
Identification Number: | 10.1029/2023GL103902 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:203375 |
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