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Attribution of recent temperature behaviour reassessed by a neural-network method
- Title
- Attribution of recent temperature behaviour reassessed by a neural-network method
- Authors
- Pasini A.; Racca P.; Amendola S.; Cartocci G.; Cassardo C.
- Ewha Authors
- Claudio Cassardo
- Issue Date
- 2017
- Journal Title
- Scientific Reports
- ISSN
- 2045-2322
- Citation
- Scientific Reports vol. 7, no. 1
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- Attribution studies on recent global warming by Global Climate Model (GCM) ensembles converge in showing the fundamental role of anthropogenic forcings as primary drivers of temperature in the last half century. However, despite their differences, all these models pertain to the same dynamical approach and come from a common ancestor, so that their very similar results in attribution studies are not surprising and cannot be considered as a clear proof of robustness of the results themselves. Thus, here we adopt a completely different, non-dynamical, data-driven and fully nonlinear approach to the attribution problem. By means of neural network (NN) modelling, and analysing the last 160 years, we perform attribution experiments and find that the strong increase in global temperature of the last half century may be attributed basically to anthropogenic forcings (with details on their specific contributions), while the Sun considerably influences the period 1910-1975. Furthermore, the role of sulphate aerosols and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation for better catching interannual to decadal temperature variability is clarified. Sensitivity analyses to forcing changes are also performed. The NN outcomes both corroborate our previous knowledge from GCMs and give new insight into the relative contributions of external forcings and internal variability to climate. © 2017 The Author(s).
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41598-017-18011-8
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- 공과대학 > 기후에너지시스템공학과 > Journal papers
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