Climate forcing-response relationships for greenhouse and shortwave radiative perturbations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 667-670

  Ramaswamy, V ^a   Chen, C T ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENERGY ABSORPTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

GLOBAL MEAN CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; RADIATIVE FORCING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE RESPONSE; GREENHOUSE GAS; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 0031091439     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00253     Document Type: Article

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