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Climate Process Team (CPT): Low-Latitude Cloud Feedbacks on Climate Sensitivity.
Goals
The Climate Process Team (CPT) is a new approach to improve climate modeling.
The concept of a CPT is that a group of scientists, i.e. modelers, observationalists, theoreticians
work closely together to improve the parameterization of a particular process in climate models.
The CPT on Low-Latitude Cloud Feedbacks on Climate Sensitivity
was motivated by the fact that two leading US models:
the NCAR and
the GFDL models
produced a very different response in the change of low-level clouds in a doubled carbon dioxide scenario.
Our team was formed to increase the understanding of tropical and subtropical cloud
feedbacks on climate sensitivity and to reduce the large uncertainty in the climate model simulations
of these feedbacks.
A complete description of the goals and organization of the CPT on Low-Latitude Cloud Feedbacks
on Climate Sensitivity can be found at the main CPT webpage:
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~breth/CPT-clouds.html
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Projects at NCAR
The CPT group at NCAR is involved in various projects
and collaborations with the rest of the CPT.
A description of our collaborative activities and accomplishments can be found in the
project webpages.
To facilitate a comprehensive cloud feedback analysis of the CAM,
we also maintain a database of simulation output and plots relevant to the CPT.
Feel free to browse our webpage.
Access to part of the website is restricted to the CPT participants.
Acknowledgments
This research is supported by the National Science Foundation.
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