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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-6-719-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-6-719-2015
Research article
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18 Nov 2015
Research article |  | 18 Nov 2015

Attribution in the presence of a long-memory climate response

K. Rypdal

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Human and natural forces drive climate change. If we have a model for the climate response to forcing, we can identify distinct fingerprints for each force, and their footprint in the observed global temperature can be determined by statistical analysis. This process is called attribution. This work examines the effect delays (long-range memory) in the climate response have on the magnitude of the various footprints. The magnitude of the human footprint turns out to be only weakly affected.
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