Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-709-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-709-2020
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03 Aug 2020
Research article |  | 03 Aug 2020

What could we learn about climate sensitivity from variability in the surface temperature record?

James D. Annan, Julia C. Hargreaves, Thorsten Mauritsen, and Bjorn Stevens

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In this paper we explore the potential of variability for constraining the equilibrium response of the climate system to external forcing. We show that the constraint is inherently skewed, with a long tail to high sensitivity, and that while the variability may contain some useful information, it is unlikely to generate a tight constraint.
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