Tracking Earth's Energy: From El Niño to Global Warming

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 413-426

  Trenberth, Kevin E ^a   Fasullo, John T ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric radiation budget; Climate change; Earth's energy; El Ni o; Global warming; Ocean heat content

Indexed keywords

BEST ESTIMATES; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY; DEEP OCEAN; DOWN-WELLING; ENERGY COMPONENTS; ENERGY FLOW; ENERGY FLUXES; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; GLOBAL ENERGY; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; LONG WAVES; MEAN ENERGY; MISSING ENERGY; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; PLANET EARTH; RADIATION MEASUREMENTS; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; TRACK CHANGES; UPPER OCEAN;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENTHALPY; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

EARTH (PLANET);

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO; ENERGY BUDGET; ENERGY FLOW; ENERGY FLUX; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84862702238     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-011-9150-2     Document Type: Article

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