Open AccessUsing models on models to test climate measurement techniques
Author(s) -
Schultz Colin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo300014
Subject(s) - carbon dioxide in earth's atmosphere , climate sensitivity , climate change , environmental science , sensitivity (control systems) , climatology , econometrics , climate model , abundance (ecology) , carbon dioxide , meteorology , atmospheric sciences , mathematics , geography , ecology , engineering , geology , oceanography , biology , electronic engineering
According to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, researchers' best estimate of the Earth's equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS)—the increase in global average temperature that would result from doubling the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide—falls somewhere between 1.5°C and 4.5°C. Despite an abundance of ongoing research, the uncertainty associated with this measurement has proven particularly difficult to eliminate.