Abstract
Abstract When long integrations of climate models forced by observed boundary conditions are compared against observations, differences appear that have spatial and temporal coherence. These differences are due to several causes, the largest of which are fundamental model errors and the internal variability inherent in a GCM integration. Uncertainties in the observations themselves are small in comparison. The present paper constitutes a first attempt to compare the time dependence of these spatial difference patterns with the time dependence of simulated spatial patterns of climate change associated with anthropogenic sources. The analysis procedure was to project the model minus observed near-surface temperature difference fields onto estimates of the anthropogenic “signal” (in this case the response to greenhouse-gas and sulfate-aerosol forcing). The temporal behavior of this projection was then compared with the estimated temporal evolution of the anthropogenic signal. Such comparisons were performed ...
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