On the surface temperature sensitivity of the reflected shortwave, outgoing longwave, and net incident radiation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 6585-6593

  Aumann, Hartmut H ^a   Ruzmaikin, Alexander ^a   Behrangi, Ali ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate sensitivity; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

AIRS DATA; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CLOUD EFFECTS; CLOUD FORCING; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; EARTH RADIATION BUDGET EXPERIMENTS; GLOBAL MEASUREMENTS; INCIDENT RADIATION; INTERANNUAL; LONG WAVES; MODEL SENSITIVITY; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; INFRARED DEVICES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

INFRARED INSTRUMENTS;

AIRS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SATELLITE DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867686896     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00607.1     Document Type: Article

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