Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

被引:230
作者
Rohling, E. J. [1 ,2 ]
Sluijs, A. [3 ]
Dijkstra, H. A. [4 ]
Koehler, P. [5 ]
de Wal, R. S. W. van [4 ]
von der Heydt, A. S. [4 ]
Beerling, D. J. [6 ]
Berger, A. [7 ]
Bijl, P. K. [3 ]
Crucifix, M. [7 ]
DeConto, R. [8 ]
Drijfhout, S. S. [9 ]
Fedorov, A. [10 ]
Foster, G. L. [1 ]
Ganopolski, A. [11 ]
Hansen, J. [12 ]
Hoenisch, B. [13 ]
Hooghiemstra, H. [14 ]
Huber, M. [15 ]
Huybers, P. [16 ]
Knutti, R. [17 ]
Lea, D. W. [18 ]
Lourens, L. J. [3 ]
Lunt, D. [19 ]
Masson-Demotte, V. [20 ]
Medina-Elizalde, M. [21 ]
Otto-Bliesner, B. [22 ]
Pagani, M.
Paelike, H. [23 ]
Renssen, H. [24 ]
Royer, D. L. [25 ]
Siddall, M. [26 ]
Valdes, P. [19 ]
Zachos, J. C.
Zeebe, R. E. [27 ]
机构
[1] Univ Southampton, Sch Ocean & Earth Sci, Natl Oceanog Ctr, Southampton SO14 3ZH, Hants, England
[2] Australian Natl Univ, Res Sch Earth Sci, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[3] Univ Utrecht, Dept Earth Sci, Fac Geosci, NL-3584 CD Utrecht, Netherlands
[4] Univ Utrecht, Inst Marine & Atmospher Res Utrecht, NL-3584 CC Utrecht, Netherlands
[5] Alfred Wegener Inst Polar & Marine Res AWI, D-27515 Bremerhaven, Germany
[6] Univ Sheffield, Dept Anim & Plant Sci, Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, England
[7] Catholic Univ Louvain, Georges Lemaitre Ctr Earth & Climate Res, Earth & Life Inst, B-1348 Louvain, Belgium
[8] Univ Massachusetts, Dept Geosci, Morrill Sci Ctr 233, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[9] Royal Netherlands Meteorol Inst, NL-3730 AE De Bilt, Netherlands
[10] Yale Univ, Dept Geol & Geophys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[11] Potsdam Inst Climate Impact Res PIK, D-14412 Potsdam, Germany
[12] NASA, Goddard Inst Space Studies, New York, NY 10025 USA
[13] Columbia Univ, Lamont Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY 10964 USA
[14] Univ Amsterdam, Inst Biodivers & Ecosyst Dynam, NL-1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands
[15] Purdue Univ, Dept Earth & Atmospher Sci, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[16] Harvard Univ, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[17] ETH, Inst Atmospher andClimate Sci, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
[18] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Earth Sci, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[19] Univ Bristol, Sch Geog Sci, Bristol BS8 1SS, Avon, England
[20] LCEA Saclay, LSCE IPSL CEA CNRS UVSQ, UMR 8212, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[21] Ctr Invest Cient Yucatan, Unidad Ciencias Agua, Cancun 77500, Quintana Roo, Mexico
[22] Natl Ctr Atmospher Res, Boulder, CO 80307 USA
[23] Univ Bremen, MARUM, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
[24] Free Univ Amsterdam, Dept Earth Sci, Fac Earth & Life Sci, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
[25] Wesleyan Univ, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Middletown, CT 06459 USA
[26] Univ Bristol, Dept Earth Sci, Bristol BS8 1RJ, Avon, England
[27] Univ Hawaii Manoa, Sch Ocean & Earth Sci & Technol, Dept Oceanog, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
基金
英国自然环境研究理事会; 欧洲研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
CARBON-DIOXIDE CONCENTRATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; EOCENE ATMOSPHERIC CO2; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; ANTARCTIC TEMPERATURE; EARTHS TEMPERATURE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; SEA-LEVEL; FUTURE; MODEL;
D O I
10.1038/nature11574
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
070301 [无机化学]; 070403 [天体物理学]; 070507 [自然资源与国土空间规划学]; 090105 [作物生产系统与生态工程];
摘要
Many palaeoclimate studies have quantified pre-anthropogenic climate change to calculate climate sensitivity (equilibrium temperature change in response to radiative forcing change), but a lack of consistent methodologies produces a wide range of estimates and hinders comparability of results. Here we present a stricter approach, to improve intercomparison of palaeoclimate sensitivity estimates in a manner compatible with equilibrium projections for future climatechange. Over the past 65 million years, this reveals a climate sensitivity (in KW-1 m(2)) of 0.3-1.9 or 0.6-1.3 at 95% or 68% probability, respectively. The latter implies a warming of 2.2-4.8 K per doubling of atmospheric CO2, which agrees with IPCC estimates.
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页码:683 / 691
页数:9
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