Temperature and humidity biases in global climate models and their impact on climate feedbacks

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  John, V O ^a   Soden, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE FEEDBACK; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC LAPSE RATE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 36549070196     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030429     Document Type: Article

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