Ice-albedo feedback in a CO2-doubling simulation |
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Authors: | Robert E Dickinson Gerald A Meehl Warren M Washington |
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Institution: | (1) National Center for Atmospheric Research, 80307 Boulder, CO, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | We estimate the feedback of sea-ice change to the warming from CO2-doubling according to the simulation of Washington and Meehl (1984). Without ice-snow albedo feedback, their global warming of 3.5 °C would have been 2.2. °C according to our estimate of the ice-snow feedback. About 80% of the albedo change from ice and snow occurred in the Southern Hemisphere. Whether this change was an overestimate will require further study.The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. |
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