Maximum entropy production, cloud feedback, and climate change

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Paltridge, Garth W ^a,b   Farquhar, Graham D ^a   Cuntz, Matthias ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER VAPOR;

CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL-AVERAGE CLOUD; GLOBAL-AVERAGE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34548597135     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029925     Document Type: Article

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