Complementary observational constraints on climate sensitivity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Urban, Nathan M ^a   Keller, Klaus ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CUT-OFF; EARTH SYSTEMS; HEAVY-TAIL; HEAVY-TAILED; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PERSISTENT FEATURE; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; VERTICAL DIFFUSIVITY;

OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; DIFFUSIVITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 66149170253     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036457     Document Type: Article

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