Diagnosing Climate Feedbacks in Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Models

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 733-744

  Chung, Eui Seok ^a   Soden, Brian J ^a   Clement, Amy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate feedbacks; Kernels; Time dependence

Indexed keywords

COUPLED MODELS; FEEDBACK PROCESS; FEEDBACK STRENGTH; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTERMODEL VARIABILITY; KERNELS; LAPSE RATE; LONG TERM RECORDS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SURFACE ALBEDO; TIME AVERAGES; TIME DEPENDENCE; TIME SEPARATION; WATER VAPOR FEEDBACKS;

FEEDBACK; SEPARATION; VAPORS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84862662745     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-012-9187-x     Document Type: Article

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