Sea surface temperature and large-scale circulation influences on tropical greenhouse effect cloud radiative forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 2055-2077

  Bony, S ^a,c   Lau, K M ^b   Sud, Y C ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPICS;

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUPERGREENHOUSE EFFECT;

GREENHOUSE EFFECT;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLOUDS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SST;

EID: 0031200764     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<2055:SSTALS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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