Water vapor, surface temperature, and the greenhouse effect-A statistical analysis of tropical-mean data

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2686-2697

  Yang, Hu ^a   Tung, Ka Kit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION METHODS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM);

GLOBAL WARMING;

DATA SET; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0032194323     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<2686:WVSTAT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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