Climate feedback implied by observed radiation and precipitation changes with midlatitude storm strength and frequency

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Tselioudis, George ^a,b   Rossow, William B ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STORMS;

CLIMATE FEEDBACK; LONGWAVE WARMING EFFECT; MIDLATITUDE STORM STRENGTH; SHORTWAVE COOLING EFFECT;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SOLAR RADIATION; STORM;

EID: 33644763282     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024513     Document Type: Article

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