Linear additivity of climate response for combined albedo and greenhouse perturbations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 567-570

  Ramaswamy, V ^a   Chen, C T ^b,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GREENHOUSES; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ALBEDO PERTURBATIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE PERTURBATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE FORCING; GCM; GREENHOUSE GAS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COMBINED SIMULATION; LINEAR CHARACTERISTICS; MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

EID: 0031091482     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00248     Document Type: Article

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