Manabe and Wetherald: radiative-convective atmospheric climate sensitivity

What changed

A physically coupled atmospheric model made CO2-driven temperature response quantitatively tractable under stated assumptions.

Scientific scope

The 1967 paper; not later general circulation models, detection or attribution of observed warming.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The model is not a full general circulation model and does not absorb later three-dimensional projections, detection or attribution studies.

Contributors

• Syukuro Manabe · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Richard T. Wetherald · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Manabe and Wetherald, Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere (1967)

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