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Uncertainties of estimates of climatic change: A review

✍ Scribed by Robert E. Dickinson

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1989
Tongue: English
Weight: 614 KB
Volume: 15
Category: Article
ISSN: 0165-0009
DOI: 10.1007/bf00138842

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✦ Synopsis

While climate modeling gives substantial information about the future climate, there are still many uncertainties. This review addresses the question of the response of the climate system to forcing by increasing atmospheric trace gases. The uncertainties of greatest concern are: the transient adjustment controlled by ocean heat uptake; the cover of snow and ice in high latitudes; the change in cloud radiative properties; and shifts in regional patterns connected to the ocean and land surfaces and to the internal dynamics of the atmosphere.

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