Global surface-temperature responses to major volcanic eruptions

Nature ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 330 (6146) ◽  
pp. 365-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. B. Sear ◽  
P. M. Kelly ◽  
P. D. Jones ◽  
C. M. Goodess
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Volcanic Eruptions ◽  
Global Surface Temperature ◽  
Temperature Responses ◽  
Global Surface

scholarly journals How Asian aerosols impact regional surface temperatures across the globe

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joonas Merikanto ◽  
Kalle Nordling ◽  
Petri Räisänen ◽  
Jouni Räisänen ◽  
Declan O'Donnell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Temperature Effects ◽  
Energy Transport ◽  
Temperature Response ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Anthropogenic Aerosols ◽  
Atmospheric Energy ◽  
Atmospheric Energy Transport ◽  
Temperature Responses ◽  
Global Surface

Abstract. South and East Asian anthropogenic aerosols mostly reside in an air mass extending from the Indian Ocean to the North Pacific. Yet the surface temperature effects of Asian aerosols spread across the whole globe. Here, we remove Asian anthropogenic aerosols from two independent climate models (ECHAM6.1 and NorESM1) using the same representation of aerosols via MACv2-SP (a simple plume implementation of the 2nd version of the Max Planck Institute Aerosol Climatology). We then robustly decompose the global distribution of surface temperature responses into contributions from atmospheric energy flux changes. We find that the horizontal atmospheric energy transport strongly moderates the surface temperature response over the regions where Asian aerosols reside. Atmospheric energy transport and changes in clear-sky longwave radiation redistribute the temperature effects efficiently across the Northern hemisphere, and to a lesser extent also over the Southern hemisphere. The model-mean global surface temperature response to Asian anthropogenic aerosol removal is 0.26 ± 0.04 °C (0.22 ± 0.03 for ECHAM6.1 and 0.30 ± 0.03 °C for NorESM1) of warming. Model-to-model differences in global surface temperature response mainly arise from differences in longwave cloud (0.01 ± 0.01 for ECHAM6.1 and 0.05 ± 0.01 °C for NorESM1) and shortwave cloud (0.03 ± 0.03 for ECHAM6.1 and 0.07 ± 0.02 °C for NorESM1) responses. The differences in cloud responses between the models also dominate the differences in regional temperature responses. In both models, the Northern hemispheric surface warming amplifies towards the Arctic, where the total temperature response is highly seasonal and weakest during the Arctic summer. We estimate that under a strong Asian aerosol mitigation policy tied with strong climate mitigation (Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 1-1.9) the Asian aerosol reductions can add around 8 years' worth of current day global warming during the next few decades.

scholarly journals Updated Temperature Data Give a Sharper View of Climate Trends

Eos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huai-Min Zhang ◽  
Jay Lawrimore ◽  
Boyin Huang ◽  
Matthew Menne ◽  
Xungang Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Temperature Data ◽  
Climate Trends ◽  
Historical Changes ◽  
Global Surface Temperature ◽  
Global Surface

The latest version of NOAA’s Global Surface Temperature Dataset improves coverage over land and sea and improves the treatment of historical changes in observational practices.

A Blended Satellite–In Situ Near–Global Surface Temperature Dataset

2000 ◽  
Vol 81 (9) ◽  
pp. 2157-2164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Peterson ◽  
Alan N. Basist ◽  
Claude N. Williams ◽  
Norman C. Grody
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Global Surface Temperature ◽  
Global Surface

scholarly journals Global Hydrological Cycle Response to Rapid and Slow Global Warming

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (22) ◽  
pp. 8781-8786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Back ◽  
Karen Russ ◽  
Zhengyu Liu ◽  
Kuniaki Inoue ◽  
Jiaxu Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Water Vapor ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Global Surface Temperature ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Precipitation Changes ◽  
Global Surface ◽  
Global Mean ◽  
Global Water

Abstract This study analyzes the response of global water vapor to global warming in a series of fully coupled climate model simulations. The authors find that a roughly 7% K−1 rate of increase of water vapor with global surface temperature is robust only for rapid anthropogenic-like climate change. For slower warming that occurred naturally in the past, the Southern Ocean has time to equilibrate, producing a different pattern of surface warming, so that water vapor increases at only 4.2% K−1. This lower rate of increase of water vapor with warming is not due to relative humidity changes or differences in mean lower-tropospheric temperature. A temperature of over 80°C would be required in the Clausius–Clapeyron relationship to match the 4.2% K−1 rate of increase. Instead, the low rate of increase is due to spatially heterogeneous warming. During slower global warming, there is enhanced warming at southern high latitudes, and hence less warming in the tropics per kelvin of global surface temperature increase. This leads to a smaller global water vapor increase, because most of the atmospheric water vapor is in the tropics. A formula is proposed that applies to general warming scenarios. This study also examines the response of global-mean precipitation and the meridional profile of precipitation minus evaporation and compares the latter to thermodynamic scalings. It is found that global-mean precipitation changes are remarkably robust between rapid and slow warming. Thermodynamic scalings for the rapid- and slow-warming zonal-mean precipitation are similar, but the precipitation changes are significantly different, suggesting that circulation changes are important in driving these differences.

scholarly journals Pacific sea level rise patterns and global surface temperature variability

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (16) ◽  
pp. 8662-8669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl E. Peyser ◽  
Jianjun Yin ◽  
Felix W. Landerer ◽  
Julia E. Cole
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Temperature Variability ◽  
Global Surface Temperature ◽  
Global Surface
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