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Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-13-1715-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-13-1715-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
Research article
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19 Dec 2022
Research article |  | 19 Dec 2022

Potential for bias in effective climate sensitivity from state-dependent energetic imbalance

Benjamin M. Sanderson and Maria Rugenstein

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Equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is a measure of how much long-term warming should be expected in response to a change in greenhouse gas concentrations. It is generally calculated in climate models by extrapolating global average temperatures to a point of where the planet is no longer a net absorber of energy. Here we show that some climate models experience energy leaks which change as the planet warms, undermining the standard approach and biasing some existing model estimates of ECS.
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