On the determination of climate feedbacks from ERBE data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 16, 2009, Pages

  Lindzen, Richard S ^a   Choi, Yong Sang ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; FEEDBACK; RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; EARTH RADIATION BUDGET EXPERIMENTS; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONSCANNER DATA; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATION FLUXES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION;

EARTH (PLANET);

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SET; GLOBAL WARMING; LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION BUDGET; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 71949095930     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039628     Document Type: Article

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