Water vapor and cloud feedback over the tropical oceans: Can we use ENSO as a surrogate for climate change?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 2971-2974

  Lau, K M ^a   Ho, C H ^a,b   Chou, M D ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH (PLANET); GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER VAPOR; CLOUDS; FEEDBACK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VAPORS; WATER;

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

LARGE SCALE CIRCULATION; TROPICAL OCEANS;

CLIMATE MODEL; CLIMATE MODELLING; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSO; GEOS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST; WATER VAPOUR; WATER VAPOUR/CLOUD FEEDBACK;

EID: 0030265162     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02414     Document Type: Article

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