Can a convective cloud feedback help to eliminate winter sea ice at high CO2 concentrations?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 5719-5731

  Abbot, Dorian S ^a   Walker, Chris C ^a   Tziperman, Eli ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATES; HIGH ALTITUDE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MOISTURE FLUXES; MOISTURE LEVEL; OCEAN SURFACES; OCEAN-SEA ICE; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; POLAR WINTERS; WINTER SEA ICES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; FEEDBACK; MODEL STRUCTURES; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE CONSOLES; SEA ICE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; EOCENE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MOISTURE FLUX; SEA ICE; WINTER;

ARCTIC;

EID: 77649296808     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2854.1     Document Type: Article

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