Paper Reviewed
Nowack, P.J., Abraham, N.L., Maycock, A.C., Braesicke, P., Gregory, J.M., Joshi, M.M. Osprey, A. and Pyle, J.A. 2015. A large ozone-circulation feedback and its implications for global warming assessments. Nature Climate Change 5: 41-45.

Nowack et al. (2014) write that "state-of-the-art climate models now include more climate processes simulated at higher spatial resolution than ever," but they state that "some processes, such as atmospheric chemical feedbacks, are still computationally expensive," and they say they are therefore "often ignored in climate simulations," citing the studies of Taylor et al. (2012) and Kravitz et al. (2013).

In further exploring the various ramifications of this neglect, the eight UK researchers used "a comprehensive atmosphere-ocean chemistry-climate model" to find "an increase in global mean surface warming of around 1°C (~20%) after 75 years when ozone is prescribed at pre-industrial levels compared with when it is allowed to evolve self-consistently in response to an abrupt 4 x CO2 forcing." And in light of these facts, they conclude that model- and scenario-consistent representations of ozone are required, in contrast to the procedure that is widely applied in climate change assessments, where "participating models often use simplified treatments of atmospheric composition changes that are consistent with neither the specified greenhouse gas forcing scenario nor the associated atmospheric circulation feedbacks," citing the work of Cionni et al. (2011), Jones et al. (2011) and Eyring et al. (2013).

In further discussing the results of Nowack et al.'s analysis, Stevenson (2015) says their research "shows that the details of how stratospheric ozone is represented in models can have a strong influence on warming projections." And as Previdi and Polvani (2014) have recently found to be the case in this regard, ozone recovery following the phasing out of the use of ozone-depleting substances "will figure prominently in future climate change, with its impacts expected to largely cancel the impacts of increasing greenhouse gases during the next half-century."

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Kravitz, B., Robock, A., Forster, P.M., Haywood, J.M., Lawrence, M.G. and Schmidt, H. 2012. An overview of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP). Journal of Geophysical Research 118: 13,103-13,107.

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Stevenson, D.S. 2015. Climate's chemical sensitivity. Nature Climate Change 5: 21-22.

Taylor, K.E., Stouffer, R.J. and Meehl, G.A. 2012. An overview of CMIP5 and the experiment design. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 93: 485-498.