Importance of the deep ocean for estimating decadal changes in Earth's radiation balance

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Palmer, Matthew D ^a   McNeall, Douglas J ^a   Dunstone, Nick J ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONTROL; EARTH (PLANET); OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; DECADAL CHANGE; DECADAL VARIABILITY; DEEP OCEAN; EARTH SYSTEMS; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT STORES; MODEL RESULTS; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; RADIATION BALANCE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THREE MODELS; TIME-SCALES; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; DEEP SEA; GLOBAL OCEAN; HADLEY CELL; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; RADIATION BALANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE;

EID: 79960535294     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047835     Document Type: Article

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