The role of clouds and oceans in global greenhouse warming

Technical Report · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:6005645

Hoffert, M I

The overall objectives of this project has been to exploit empirical data from atmospheric measurements, satellite data and paleoclimatic reconstructions to derive the role of cloud radiative forcing on the historical global temperature record and on projections of global warming from greenhouse gases during the coming decades. Our work has involved data analysis and modelling tasks involving both atmospheric radiation and ocean modelling. A major accomplishment this past year has been the derivation of global climate sensitivity and the cloud radiative feedback from a new analysis of paleoclimatic data. A detailed discussion of this work and it implications is given as the appendix to this Progress Report. Some additional research planning considerations are discussed below.

• Research Organization: New York Univ., NY (United States). Dept. of Applied Science
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; LLNL; NIGEC; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States); National Inst. for Global Environmental Change, Davis, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-90ER61014; W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6005645
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/61014-2; ON: DE92007018
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540110*
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ALBEDO
ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
CLIMATE MODELS
CLIMATIC CHANGE
CLOUDS
DOCUMENT TYPES
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
GREENHOUSE GASES
ISOTOPES
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
OCEANIC CIRCULATION
PROGRESS REPORT
RADIOISOTOPES
SEAS
SURFACE WATERS