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Signal detection in global mean temperatures after “Paris”: an uncertainty and sensitivity analysis
Hans Visser
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PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Bilthoven, the
Netherlands
Sönke Dangendorf
Research Institute for Water and Environment,
University Siegen, Siegen, Germany
Detlef P. van Vuuren
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Bilthoven, the
Netherlands
Faculty of Geosciences,
University Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Bram Bregman
Institute for
Science, Innovation and Society, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the
Netherlands
Arthur C. Petersen
STEaPP, University College London, London, UK
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Short summary
In December 2015, 195 countries agreed in Paris to hold the increase in global temperature well below 2.0 °C. However, the Paris Agreement is not conclusive as regards methods to calculate it. To find answers to these questions we performed an uncertainty and sensitivity analysis where datasets, model choices, choices for pre-industrial and warming definitions have been varied. Based on these findings we propose an estimate for signal progression in global temperature since pre-industrial time.
In December 2015, 195 countries agreed in Paris to hold the increase in global temperature well...
