Climate feedbacks under a very broad range of forcing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Colman, Robert ^a   McAvaney, Bryant ^b  

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

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; NEURAL NETWORKS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITIES; CLIMATE WARMS; CLOUD OPTICAL PROPERTIES; FEEDBACKS]; LAPSE RATES; LONG WAVES; MIXED LAYERS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; TOTAL WATER CONTENTS; WATER VAPOURS;

FEEDBACK;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLOUD COVER; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WARMING;

EID: 62749101228     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036268     Document Type: Article

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