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Climate science

the contested proposal that tropical upper-level cirrus area shrinks as sea surfaces warm, letting more infrared radiation escape and acting as a negative feedback.

In climate science, Lindzen iris hypothesis refers to the contested proposal that tropical upper-level cirrus area shrinks as sea surfaces warm, letting more infrared radiation escape and acting as a negative feedback. This meaning comes from Lindzen (2001) in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.[1]

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  1. Lindzen, R. S., Chou, M., & Hou, A. Y. (2001). Does the Earth Have an Adaptive Infrared Iris? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82(3), 417-432. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(2001)082<0417:dtehaa>2.3.co;2

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