Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Fortunately, Manabe recently wrote a retrospective on his early work in response to receiving the Crafoord prize in 2018. Manabe’s subsequent work led to the development of the GFDL GCM, initially just including the atmosphere, but eventually with an ocean, and then the transient results shown in Manabe and Stouffer (1993).

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Atmosphere Ocean Greenhouse Climate Change 328

Frontiers

AUGUST 7, 2023

For example, Antarctica acts to cool our planet by reflecting solar radiation back to space by virtue of the brightness of its snow surface. Several floating ice shelves – the massive slabs of ice that push back grounded ice from flowing into the ocean – have catastrophically broken up in a matter of days because of such melting.

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Ocean Fossil Fuels Radiation Environmental Science 98

Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

An area of high pressure above the Pacific Ocean was driven eastwards through the jet stream by a “Rossby wave” – a planetary-scale fluctuation arising from the Coriolis force. The Rossby wave eventually “broke”, dumping its energy – like an ocean wave hitting the shore – to create an area of high pressure locked over western Canada and US.

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Cooling Atmosphere Climate Change Greenhouse 133

HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

This balance describes how much energy is being reflected back into space versus how much is being absorbed by our atmosphere; a positive change in the balance indicates that we’re taking more energy in (net warming) and a negative balance indicates that we’re reflecting more energy out (net cooling). References Arctic Council. Black Carbon.”

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Atmosphere Carbon Emissions 2020 2012 52

Breezometer

MAY 23, 2022

Pyrocumulonimbus cloud over the 2018 Carr Fire (image by Jim Mackensen; source ). Much like big volcanic eruptions, the smoke from fire tornadoes can block radiation from the Sun and potentially cause temporary climatic cooling. Smoke pollution from wildfires always presents a major health risk for affected areas.

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Air Pollution Climate Change Atmosphere Radiation 52

HumanNature

APRIL 10, 2023

Student in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University Most people remember the water cycle they learned in school: water evaporates from lakes, rivers, and the ocean, air carrying this moisture rises, cools, condenses, and forms clouds, and these clouds precipitate water back down to the surface.

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Climate Change Paris Agreement Atmosphere Cooling 52

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

First, underwater – in the sediments on the bottom of swamps, lakes, and the ocean. The issue is that total human radiative forcing includes several parts that heat and some that cool, so counting separate heating contributions like this leaving out the cooling parts gives too much heating.). W/m 2 from elevated CO 2.

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Atmosphere Radiation Natural Gas Greenhouse 147