Causes of irregularities in trends of global mean surface temperature since the late 19th century

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Folland, Chris K., Boucher, Olivier, Colman, Andrew and Parker, David E.. 2018. "Causes of irregularities in trends of global mean surface temperature since the late 19th century." Science Advances. 4 (6), pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao5297
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Causes of irregularities in trends of global mean surface temperature since the late 19th century

ERA Journal ID211335
Article CategoryArticle
AuthorsFolland, Chris K. (Author), Boucher, Olivier (Author), Colman, Andrew (Author) and Parker, David E. (Author)
Journal TitleScience Advances
Journal Citation4 (6), pp. 1-16
Number of Pages16
Year2018
PublisherAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Place of PublicationUnited States
ISSN2375-2548
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao5297
Web Address (URL)https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aao5297
Abstract

The time series of monthly global mean surface temperature (GST) since 1891 is successfully reconstructed from known natural and anthropogenic forcing factors, including internal climate variability, using a multiple regression technique. Comparisons are made with the performance of 40 CMIP5 models in predicting GST. The relative contributions of the various forcing factors to GST changes vary in time, but most of the warming since 1891 is found to be attributable to the net influence of increasing greenhouse gases and anthropogenic aerosols. Separate statistically independent analyses are also carried out for three periods of GST slowdown (1896–1910, 1941–1975, and 1998–2013 and subperiods); two periods of strong warming (1911–1940 and 1976–1997) are also analyzed. A reduction in total incident solar radiation forcing played a significant cooling role over 2001–2010. The only serious disagreements between the reconstructions and observations occur during the Second World War, especially in the period 1944–1945, when observed near-worldwide sea surface temperatures (SSTs) may be significantly warm-biased. In contrast, reconstructions of near-worldwide SSTs were rather warmer than those observed between about 1907 and 1910. However, the generally high reconstruction accuracy shows that known external and internal forcing factors explain all the main variations in GST between 1891 and 2015, allowing for our current understanding of their uncertainties. Accordingly, no important additional factors are needed to explain the two main warming and three main slowdown periods during this epoch.

KeywordsAnthropogenic aerosols; Anthropogenic forcing; Global mean surface temperature; Internal climate variability; Multiple regression techniques; Reconstruction accuracy; Relative contribution; Sea surface temperatures
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020370201. Climate change processes
370999. Physical geography and environmental geoscience not elsewhere classified
Byline AffiliationsInternational Centre for Applied Climate Science
Sorbonne University, France
Met Office, United Kingdom
Institution of OriginUniversity of Southern Queensland
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