Undestanding land-sea warming contrast in response to increasing greenhouse gases. Part I: Transient adjustment

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3079-3097

  Dong, Buwen ^a   Gregory, Jonathan M ^a,b   Sutton, Rowan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLOUD AMOUNT; CLOUD COVER; DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS; EQUILIBRIUM VALUE; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; HEAT CAPACITIES; LAND SURFACE; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; RAPID REDUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; STOMATAL RESISTANCE; SURFACE PROCESS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THREE STAGES; TIME-SCALE; TRANSIENT EFFECT; TROPOSPHERIC CLIMATE; TROPOSPHERIC WARMING; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERICS; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; GREENHOUSES; GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PERMITTIVITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEAT FLUX; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

EID: 66849102885     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2652.1     Document Type: Article

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