Revisiting the determination of climate sensitivity from relationships between surface temperature and radiative fluxes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Chung, Eui Seok ^a   Soden, Brian J ^a   Sohn, Byung Ju ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; DAMPING RATE; GLOBAL SCALE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; RADIATIVE DAMPING; RADIATIVE FLUXES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL OCEAN;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77953048817     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043051     Document Type: Article

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