A Decomposition of Feedback Contributions to Polar Warming Amplification

• Published in: Journal of climate Vol. 26; no. 18; pp. 7023 - 7043
• Main Authors: Taylor, Patrick C., Cai, Ming, Hu, Aixue, Meehl, Jerry, Washington, Warren, Zhang, Guang J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA American Meteorological Society 15.09.2013
• Subjects: Albedo; Amplification; Atmosphere; Atmospherics; Carbon dioxide; Climate; Climate change; Climate feedback; Climate models; Climate sensitivity; Climate system; Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change; Clouds; Decomposition; Earth, ocean, space; Energy; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; Feedback; General circulation models; Global climate; Global climate models; Global warming; Heat; Heat transport; Long wave radiation; Marine; Meteorology; Ocean warming; Oceans; Polar regions; Polar waters; Radiation; Response analysis; Simulation; Southern Hemisphere; Storage; Surface temperature; Transport; Troposphere; Turbulent fluxes; Water vapor; Water vapour; Netherlands; Arctic region; Coupled model; General circulation models; climate warming; Climate models; digital simulation; greenhouse gas; feedback; Polar amplification; Atmospheric temperature; global change; Polar region; Forcing; climate change

Polar surface temperatures are expected to warm 2–3 times faster than the global-mean surface temperature: a phenomenon referred to as polar warming amplification. Therefore, understanding the individual process contributions to the polar warming is critical to understanding global climate sensitivi...