Quantifying climate feedbacks using radiative kernels

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3504-3520

  Soden, Brian J ^a   Held, Isaac M ^b   Colman, Robert C ^c   Shell, Karen M ^d,e   Kiehl, Jeffrey T ^d   Shields, Christine A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROL THEORY; STATE FEEDBACK; TURBULENT FLOW;

CLOUD FORCING; DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSE; EXTERNAL FORCING; FEEDBACKS]; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELING; INCREMENTAL CHANGES; NON-LINEARITIES; RADIATIVE FLUXES; REGIONAL STRUCTURE; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TOP-OF-ATMOSPHERE; UNPERTURBED CLIMATE;

FEEDBACK;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLEAR SKY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 44249092520     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI2110.1     Document Type: Article

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