TY - JOUR
T1 - Internally and externally caused climate change
AU - Robock, Alan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1978 American Meteorological Society.
PY - 1978/6
Y1 - 1978/6
N2 - A numerical climate model is used to simulate climate change forced only by random fluctuations of the atmospheric heat transport. This short-term natural variability of the atmosphere is shown to be a possible "cause" not only of the variability of the annual world average temperature about its mean, but also long-term excursions from the mean. Various external causes of climate change are also tested with the model and the results compared with observations for the past 100 years. Volcanic dust is shown to have been an important cause of climate change, while the effects of sunspot-related solar constant variation and anthropogenic forcing are not evident.
AB - A numerical climate model is used to simulate climate change forced only by random fluctuations of the atmospheric heat transport. This short-term natural variability of the atmosphere is shown to be a possible "cause" not only of the variability of the annual world average temperature about its mean, but also long-term excursions from the mean. Various external causes of climate change are also tested with the model and the results compared with observations for the past 100 years. Volcanic dust is shown to have been an important cause of climate change, while the effects of sunspot-related solar constant variation and anthropogenic forcing are not evident.
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U2 - 10.1175/1520-0469(1978)035<1111:IAECCC<2.0.CO;2
DO - 10.1175/1520-0469(1978)035<1111:IAECCC<2.0.CO;2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84970315064
SN - 0022-4928
VL - 35
SP - 1111
EP - 1122
JO - Journals of the Atmospheric Sciences
JF - Journals of the Atmospheric Sciences
IS - 6
ER -