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Causes of higher climate sensitivity in CMIP6 models [1]

Equilibrium climate sensitivity, the global surface temperature response to CO$_2$ doubling, has been persistently uncertain. [2]Recent consensus places it likely within 1.5‐4.5K. Global climate models (GCMs), which attempt to represent all relevant physical processes, provide the most direct means of estimating climate sensitivity.

Original Source [3]

Publication Date: 
03/01/2020
Mark D. Zelinka [4], Timothy A. Myers [5], Daniel T. McCoy & et al [6]
Geophysical Research Letters [7]
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Climate Change [8], Climate Science [9], Green House Gases [10], Carbon Dioxide [11], Global Warming [12]
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[3] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL085782
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