Fig. 5: Sensitivity of climate feedback evolution. | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Fig. 5: Sensitivity of climate feedback evolution.

From: Enhanced shortwave absorption by water vapor increases effective climate sensitivity via accelerated AMOC recovery

Fig. 5

a Net climate feedback evolution (Δλ) versus AMOC strength evolution (ΔAMOC). b Difference in Δλ from 0.6X case in 0.8X (blue), 1.0X (yellow), and 1.2X (red), with its decomposition into the contributions from lapse rate feedback (Δλlr), LW cloud feedback (Δλlw,cld), SW cloud feedback (Δλsw,cld), Planck radiative feedback (Δλplk), albedo feedback (Δλalb), SW non-cloud feedback (Δλsw,ncld), and LW water vapor feedback (Δλlw,q). The sum of individual contributions (Sum) well reproduces the actual Δλ. See Methods for details. Difference between 1.2X and 0.6X cases of c Δλlr, d ΔEIS (shading) and Δlow cloud fraction (positive in solid contours, negative in dashed contours, CI = 8%), e Δλcld, and f its zonal mean Δλcld (black) decomposed into shortwave (Δλsw,cld, blue) and longwave (Δλlw,cld, red) components.

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