Climate feedbacks in response to changes in obliquity

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2830-2845

  Mantsis, Damianos F ^a   Clement, Amy C ^a   Broccoli, Anthony J ^b   Erb, Michael P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Energy budget; Feedback; Radiation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; COOLING EFFECTS; ENERGY BUDGETS; GLOBAL CLOUDS; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; HEAT TRANSPORT; HIGH LATITUDES; ICE FRACTION; INFLUENCE OF FEEDBACK; LAPSE RATE; LOW LATITUDES; MERIDIONAL GRADIENTS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE RECORDS; RADIATIVE FLUXES; SURFACE ALBEDO; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; WATER VAPOR CONTENTS;

BUDGET CONTROL; CARBON DIOXIDE; EARTH (PLANET); FEEDBACK; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY BUDGET; HEAT TRANSFER; RADIATION BUDGET; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 79959330860     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3986.1     Document Type: Article

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