Climate Change: Earth's energy imbalance: Confirmation and implications

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5727, 2005, Pages 1431-1435

  Hansen, James ^a,b   Nazarenko, Larissa ^a,b   Ruedy, Reto ^c   Sato, Makiko ^a,b   Willis, Josh ^d   Del Genio, Anthony ^a,e   Koch, Dorothy ^a,b   Lacis, Andrew ^a,e   Lo, Ken ^c   Menon, Surabi ^f   Novakov, Tica ^f   Perlwitz, Judith ^a,b   Russell, Gary ^a   Schmidt, Gavin A ^a,b   Tausnev, Nicholas ^c  

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

^b Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

^c SGT INC   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ENERGY ABSORPTION; ENTHALPY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SEA LEVEL; SOLAR ENERGY;

CLIMATE SYSTEMS; ENERGY IMBALANCE; GREENHOUSE GASES; ICE SHEETS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY BALANCE;

ACCURACY; AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY ABSORPTION; ENERGY BALANCE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL;

EID: 20344400160     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1110252     Document Type: Article

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