Climate simulations for 1951-2050 with a coupled atmosphere-ocean model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2807-2826

  Sun, Shan ^a   Hansen, James E ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

HEAT ANOMALIES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY BALANCE; HEAT BALANCE;

EID: 0141975292     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<2807:CSFWAC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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