Impact of atmospheric small-scale fluctuations on climate sensitivity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Seiffert, Rita ^a,b   von Storch, Jin Song ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY OPERATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC FLUCTUATIONS; CIRCULATION MODELS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITIES; EQUILIBRIUM CLIMATE SENSITIVITIES; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZED; SMALL SCALES; SUBSCALE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; UPPER TROPOSPHERES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 57149131010     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033483     Document Type: Article

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