Estimations of climate sensitivity based on top-of-atmosphere radiation imbalance

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1923-1930

  Lin, B ^a   Chambers, L ^a   Stackhouse Jr , P ^a   Wielicki, B ^a   Hu, Y ^a   Minnis, P ^a   Loeb, N ^a   Sun, W ^b   Potter, G ^c   Min, Q ^d   Schuster, G ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; ENERGY BALANCE; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT TRANSFER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE;

EID: 77349112249     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-1923-2010     Document Type: Article

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