Understanding and Measuring Earth's Energy Budget: From Fourier, Humboldt, and Tyndall to CERES and Beyond

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 337-350

  Kandel, Robert ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Earth's energy flows; Historical background; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; CLIMATE VARIATION; EARTH CLIMATE; ENERGY BUDGETS; ENERGY EXCHANGES; ENERGY FLOW; ENERGY FLUXES; FOURIER; GEOGRAPHICAL STRUCTURE; GROUND BASED; HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INTERANNUAL; INTERDECADAL VARIATIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEASONAL CYCLE; SOLAR-LUMINOSITY; SPACE OBSERVATIONS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TYNDALL;

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE;

EARTH (PLANET);

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; ENERGY BUDGET; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84862690795     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-011-9162-y     Document Type: Article

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