Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

A less cloudy picture of the inter-model spread in future global warming projections

  • Xiaoming Hu,
  • Hanjie Fan,
  • Ming Cai,
  • Sergio A. Sejas,
  • Patrick Taylor,
  • Song Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18227-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The spatial pattern and global mean values of warming differ between different climate models, an issue that needs to be better understood in order to obtain reliable regional projections. Here, the authors show that ice-albedo and water vapor feedbacks are the key processes that are responsible for this inter-model spread.