An assessment of climate feedbacks in coupled ocean-atmosphere models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3354-3360

  Soden, Brian J ^a   Held, Isaac M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; VAPORS;

CLIMATE FEEDBACKS; CLOUD FEEDBACK; COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; WATER VAPOR;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE FEEDBACK;

EID: 33646848186     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3799.1     Document Type: Article

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