An assessment of climate feedback processes using satellite observations of clear-sky OLR

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Chung, Eui Seok ^a   Yeomans, David ^a   Soden, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; INTERMODEL VARIABILITY; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SOURCES OF VARIABILITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; WATER VAPOR VARIATIONS;

DAMPING;

EID: 77952164638     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041889     Document Type: Article

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