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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH,
VOL. 101, NO. D8,
PAGES 12,791–12,794,
1996
Cloud feedback in atmospheric general circulation models: An update
R. D. Cess
M. H. Zhang
W. J. Ingram
G. L. Potter
V. Alekseev
H. W. Barker
E. Cohen-Solal
R. A. Colman
D. A. Dazlich
A. D. Del Genio
M. R. Dix
V. Dymnikov
M. Esch
L. D. Fowler
J. R. Fraser
V. Galin
W. L. Gates
J. J. Hack
J. T. Kiehl
H. Le Treut
K. K.-W. Lo
B. J. McAvaney
V. P. Meleshko
J.-J. Morcrette
D. A. Randall
E. Roeckner
J.-F. Royer
M. E. Schlesinger
P. V. Sporyshev
B. Timbal
E. M. Volodin
K. E. Taylor
W. Wang
R. T. Wetherald
Abstract
Six years ago, we compared the climate sensitivity of 19 atmospheric general circulation models and found a roughly threefold
variation among the models; most of this variation was attributed to differences in the models' depictions of cloud feedback.
In an update of this comparison, current models showed considerably smaller differences in net cloud feedback, with most producing
modest values. There are, however, substantial differences in the feedback components, indicating that the models still have
physical disagreements.
Received 2
November
1995;
accepted 5
March
1996.
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Citation: Cess, R. D., et al.
(1996),
Cloud feedback in atmospheric general circulation models: An update,
J. Geophys. Res.,
101(D8),
12,791–12,794.
Copyright 1996 by the American Geophysical Union.
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