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The climate sensitivity may be defined as the rate of change in the radiative budget at the top of the atmosphere. This definition is applied to the LMD GCM results in order to evaluate the main processes which account for the model response to an external forcing, such as an increase in the greenhouse gases concentration, or a modification of the solar constant. The sensitivity associated with these long term changes of the climate system is compared with that corresponding to shorter time-scales, such as the response to the seasonal forcing or the interannual variability. This constitutes a first step toward the validation of the model, since the model behaviour at short time scales may be evaluated by comparison with observed data.
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Treut, H.L., Li, ZX., Bony, S. (1994). Climate Sensitivity: Cloud and Water Feedbacks and their Assessment. In: Nesme-Ribes, E. (eds) The Solar Engine and Its Influence on Terrestrial Atmosphere and Climate. NATO ASI Series, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79257-1_20
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