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Last Glacial Maximum pattern effects reduce climate sensitivity estimates
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DOI：10.1126/sciadv.adk9461.png)
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Here, we show that the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) provides a stronger constraint on equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS), the global warming from increasing greenhouse gases, after accounting for temperature patterns. Feedbacks governing ECS depend on spatial patterns of surface temperature (pattern effects); hence, using the LGM to constrain future warming requires quantifying how temperature patterns produce different feedbacks during LGM cooling versus modern-day warming. Combining data assimilation reconstructions with atmospheric models, we show that the climate is more sensitive to LGM forcing because ice sheets amplify extratropical cooling where feedbacks are destabilizing. Accounting for LGM pattern effects yields a median modern-day ECS of 2.4 degrees C, 66% range 1.7 degrees to 3.5 degrees C (1.4 degrees to 5.0 degrees C, 5 to 95%), from LGM evidence alone. Combining the LGM with other lines of evidence, the best estimate becomes 2.9 degrees C, 66% range 2.4 degrees to 3.5 degrees C (2.1 degrees to 4.1 degrees C, 5 to 95%), substantially narrowing uncertainty compared to recent assessments.
Keywords:
SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE
RADIATIVE FEEDBACKS
STATIONARY WAVES
SPATIAL-PATTERN
CLOUD FEEDBACK
SOUTHERN-OCEAN
GLOBAL CLOUD
ICE SHEETS
MODEL
DEPENDENCE
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