Towards constraining climate sensitivity by linear analysis of feedback patterns in thousands of perturbed-physics GCM simulations

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 30, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 175-190

  Sanderson, Benjamin M ^a   Piani, C ^b   Ingram, W J ^a,c   Stone, D A ^a,d   Allen, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d TYNDALL CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLOUD COVER; CORRELATION; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 38849206844     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0280-7     Document Type: Article

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