Constraining climate sensitivity with linear fits to outgoing radiation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Murphy, Daniel M ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; ENERGY BALANCE EQUATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM TEMPERATURES; GLOBAL DOMAIN; HEAT TRANSPORT; INTERVAL METHODS; SPACE AND TIME; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DATA;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CORRELATION; ENERGY BALANCE; HEAT TRANSFER; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77952129696     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL042911     Document Type: Article

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