Climate forcings and climate sensitivities diagnosed from coupled climate model integration

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 6181-6194

  Forster, Piers M de F ^a   Taylor, Karl E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INTEGRATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCINGS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; RADIATIVE FORCING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCING;

EID: 33845387289     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3974.1     Document Type: Article

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