Energy-balance climate models

Frontiers of Climate Modeling

Volumn 9780521791328, Issue , 2006, Pages 52-72

  North, Gerald R ^a   Stevens, Mark J ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

OCEANIC MIXED LAYERS; SOLID EARTH; SPHERICAL SURFACE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 47749085730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511535857.004     Document Type: Chapter

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