Physical climate response to a reduction of anthropogenic climate forcing

Earth Interactions

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Samanta, Arindam ^a   Anderson, Bruce T ^a   Ganguly, Sangram ^b   Knyazikhin, Yuri ^a   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^b   Myneni, Ranga B ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Feedback; Forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; FEEDBACK; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; RECOVERY; SEA ICE; SOIL MOISTURE;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE; ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; FORCING; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; NONLINEAR HYSTERESIS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; WEST AFRICAN MONSOON;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 77956912434     PISSN: 10873562     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010EI325.1     Document Type: Article

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