On the structure of water vapour feedbacks in climate models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Colman, Rob ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

1620 Global Change: Climate dynamics (3309); 3359 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Radiative processes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; WATER VAPOR;

MERIDIONAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER VAPOR;

VAPORS; FEEDBACK;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELING; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; WATER VAPOR;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGE; HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; STRUCTURE OF WATERS; TEMPERATURE FEEDBACK; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER VAPOUR;

EID: 13244289819     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020708     Document Type: Article

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