The mechanisms of cloudiness evolution responsible for equilibrium
climate sensitivity in climate model INM-CM4-8
Abstract
The effect of changes in cloudiness parameterization on the equilibrium
climate sensitivity (ECS) of the climate model INM-CM4-8 is
investigated. The reasonable changes in parameterization of cloudiness
amount only lead to variability of ECS in INM-CM4-8 in the interval of
1.8 - 4.1 K, that is more than a half of the interval for CMIP6 models.
Two mechanisms are mainly responsible to increase of ECS. The first one
is increase of cloudiness dissipation in warmer climate because of
increased water vapor deficit in non-cloud fraction of a cell. The
second one is decrease atmospheric boundary layer cloudiness generation
in warmer climate. The amplitude of natural climate variability change
with respect to ECS change was studied. Increase of ECS doesn’t lead to
increase of the value of natural climate variability at most time and
spatial scales.