A new framework for isolating individual feedback processes in coupled general circulation climate models. Part I: Formulation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 873-885

  Lu, Jianhua ^a   Cai, Ming ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate feedback; Climate sensitivity; Global warming

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY FLUX; ESTIMATION METHOD; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; LATENT HEAT FLUX; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PERTURBATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 62549092681     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0425-3     Document Type: Article

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