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Climate Sensitivity

Climate Sensitivity is the equilibrium change in global mean surface temperature resulting from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, serving as a key metric of the sensitivity of the climate system to radiative forcing within the broader field of climate science.

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Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis

Richard N. Cooper, J. T. Houghton, James J. McCarthy et al. · Foreign Affairs · 2002 · 13K citations

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Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system

Timothy M. Lenton, Hermann Held, Elmar Kriegler et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · 4K citations · Full text

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On the separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and ecosystem respiration: review and improved algorithm

Markus Reichstein, Eva Falge, Dennis Baldocchi et al. · Global Change Biology · 2005 · 4K citations · Full text

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The RCP greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions from 1765 to 2300

Malte Meinshausen, Steven J. Smith, Katherine Calvin et al. · Climatic Change · 2011 · 3.8K citations · Full text

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Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

Pierre Friedlingstein, Peter M. Cox, Richard Betts et al. · Journal of Climate · 2006 · 3.2K citations · Full text

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  1. PF
    Piers Forster

    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

    32 publications · 3.5K citations

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  2. JM
    Jonathan M. Gregory

    Met Office, United Kingdom

    34 publications · 5.7K citations

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  3. MA
    Myles Allen

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    29 publications · 4.9K citations

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  4. TA
    Timothy Andrews

    Met Office, United Kingdom

    29 publications · 3.4K citations

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  5. DS
    Drew Shindell

    Goddard Institute for Space Studies, United States

    26 publications · 4.4K citations

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Institutions

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  1. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Boulder, United States

    92 h-index

    469 publications

    72.2K citations

  2. Met Office

    Exeter, United Kingdom

    87 h-index

    468 publications

    84.9K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    66 h-index

    460 publications

    192.9K citations

  4. University of Reading

    Reading, United Kingdom

    61 h-index

    213 publications

    22.8K citations

  5. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    59 h-index

    266 publications

    46.5K citations

  6. NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

    Princeton, United States

    57 h-index

    235 publications

    35.5K citations

  7. Goddard Institute for Space Studies

    New York, United States

    56 h-index

    267 publications

    62.7K citations

  8. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    55 h-index

    198 publications

    37.3K citations

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  1. Journal of Climate

    237 publications · 26K citations

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  2. Geophysical Research Letters

    254 publications · 25K citations

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  3. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 119 publications · 16.5K citations

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  4. Climate Dynamics

    186 publications · 13.8K citations

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  5. Nature Climate Change

    86 publications · 19.2K citations

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