Estimation of Characteristics of the Earth’s Climate System from its Response to Changes in Solar Constant
Restoration of the impulse response of the Earth's climate system (ECS) showed that the rate of its reaction can be characterized by an equivalent time constant of 1.04±0.17 months. Sensitivity of ECS to changes in radiative forcing is equal to 0.41±0.05 K W-1m2, which gives the positive feedback factor 1.37±0.17. Effective heat capacity of ECS per unit area, which manifests itself in the radiative forcing duration of the order time constant, equal to 6.7±1.9 MJ K-1m-2 and is about 0.64 the heat capacity of the atmosphere. This suggests that the reaction of ECS on the change in radiative forcing at similar time intervals due to the atmospheric processes
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