A comparison of climate response to different radiative forcings in three general circulation models: Towards an improved metric of climate change

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 20, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 843-854

  Joshi, M ^a   Shine, K ^a   Ponater, M ^b   Stuber, N ^b   Sausen, R ^b   Li, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCING;

EID: 0038375955     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-003-0305-9     Document Type: Article

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