Skip to main content

Advertisement

Log in

Climate physics, feedbacks, and reductionism (and when does reductionism go too far?)

The European Physical Journal Plus Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

We review the basic physics of the greenhouse effect, the concept of climate sensitivity, a variety of ways of evaluating climate sensitivity and the limitations of the concept of climate sensitivity.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. R.S. Lindzen, A.Y. Hou, B. Farrell, J. Atmos. Sci. 39, 1189 (1982).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  2. R.S. Lindzen, C. Giannitsis, J. Geophys. Res. 103, 5929 (1998).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  3. G.R. Roe, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 37, 93 (2009).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  4. M.-I. Lee, M.J. Suarez, I.-S. Kang, I.M. Held, D. Kim, J. Atmos. Sci. 21, 4934 (2009).

    Google Scholar 

  5. R.S. Lindzen, S. Nigam, J. Atmos. Sci. 44, 2418 (1987).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  6. D.-Z. Sun, R.S. Lindzen, J. Atmos. Sci. 51, 757 (1994).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  7. T. Schneider, J. Atmos. Sci. 61, 1317 (2004).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  8. M. Jansen, R. Ferrari, J. Atmos. Sci. 69, 695 (2012).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  9. D.B. Kirk-Davidoff, R.S. Lindzen, J. Clim. 13, 431 (2000).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  10. G.R. Roe, Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L24703 (2006) DOI:10.1029/2006GL027817.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  11. R.S. Lindzen, B. Farrell, Mon. Weather Rev. 108, 2064 (1980).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  12. R.E. Newell, J.W. Kidson, D.G. Vincent, G.J. Boer, The General Circulation of the Tropical Atmosphere and Interactions with Extratropical Latitudes (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1974) pp. 629.

  13. M. Huber, L.C. Sloan, Geophys. Res. Lett. 28, 3481 (2001).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  14. R.S. Lindzen, Y.-S. Choi, Asia-Pacific J. Atmos. Sci. 47, 377 (2011).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  15. K.E. Trenberth, J.T. Fasullo, C. O’Dell, T. Wong, Geophys. Res. Lett. 37, L03702 (2010).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  16. A.E. Dessler, Science 330, 1523 (2010).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  17. P.M. Forster, J.M. Gregory, J. Clim. 19, 39 (2006).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  18. D.M. Murphy et al., J. Geophys. Res. 114, D17107 (2009).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  19. K.E. Trenberth, J.T. Fasullo, Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L07706 (2009) DOI:10.1029/2009GL037527.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  20. R.S. Lindzen, M.-D. Chou, A.Y. Hou, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 82, 417 (2001).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  21. D.L. Hartmann, M.L. Michelsen, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 83, 249 (2002).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  22. Q. Fu, M. Baker, D.L. Hartman, Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2, 31 (2002).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  23. B. Lin, B. Wielicki, L. Chambers, Y. Hu, K.-M. Xu, J. Clim. 15, 3 (2002).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  24. R.S. Lindzen, M.-D. Chou, A.Y. Hou, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 83, 1345 (2002).

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  25. M.-D. Chou, R.S. Lindzen, A.Y. Hou, Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2, 99 (2002).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  26. M.-D. Chou, R.S. Lindzen, A.Y. Hou, J. Clim. 15, 2713 (2002).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  27. F.J. Wentz et al., Science 317, 233 (2007) DOI:10.1126/science.1140746.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  28. G.I. Stephens, Yongxiang Hu, Environ. Res. Lett. 5, 025209 (2010) DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/5/2/025209.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  29. Y.-S. Choi, R.S. Lindzen, C.-H. Ho, J. Kim, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107, 11211 (2010).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  30. R.F. Rondanelli, R.S. Lindzen, J. Geophys. Res. 113, D16119 (2008) DOI:10.1029/2008JD010064.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  31. A. Horvath, B. Soden, J. Clim. 21, 1013 (2008).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to R. S. Lindzen.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Lindzen, R.S. Climate physics, feedbacks, and reductionism (and when does reductionism go too far?). Eur. Phys. J. Plus 127, 52 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2012-12052-8

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2012-12052-8

Keywords

Navigation