Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Models (Final Technical Report)

Abstract

The updated calculation of the probability distributions of climate sensitivity, aerosol forcing and ocean heat uptake described in the last progress report were published (Forest et al., 2008). Alternative distribution for climate parameters were calculated using estimates of observed heat uptake by Domingues et al. (2008) instead of those by Levitus et al. (2005). Our analysis showing that climate change projections significantly depend on estimates of heat uptake by the oceans used to obtain input parameters distribution, was published (Sokolov et al., 2010).