Evaluating adjusted forcing in the CMIP5 generation of climate models

New IAGP paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. Evaluating adjusted forcing and model spread for historical and future scenarios in the CMIP5 generation of climate models This research utilized energy budget diagnostics from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) to evaluate the models' climate forcing since preindustrial times, employing an established regression technique. The climate forcing evaluated this way, termed the adjusted forcing (AF), includes a rapid adjustment term associated with cloud changes and other tropospheric and land-surface changes. Authors: Piers M. Forster et al.  This is an open access paper and is available for free download from the JGR: Atmospheres website.