Conceptual understanding of climate change with a globally resolved energy balance model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 2143-2165

  Dommenget, Dietmar ^a   Flöter, Janine ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate dynamics; Climate feedback; Climate models; Climate sensitivity; Energy balance model; Global warming; Simple climate model

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY BALANCE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; WATER VAPOR; WINTER;

EID: 81455141950     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1026-0     Document Type: Article

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