Normal modes and the transient response of the climate system

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 559-562

  MacKay, Robert M ^a,b   Ko, Malcolm K W ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Clark College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DIFFUSION; ENERGY TRANSFER; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

N BOX MODEL; OCEAN ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; UPWELLING DIFFUSION MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELLING; CLIMATE SYSTEM; NORMAL MODES; TRANSIENT RESPONSE; UPWELLING DIFFUSION; UPWELLING-DIFFUSION MODEL;

CHARACTERISTIC TIME; DIFFERENT LAYERS; DIFFUSION MODEL; ENERGY EXCHANGES; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

EID: 0031105899     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00286     Document Type: Article

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