The role of oceanic feedback in the climate response to doubling CO2

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 7544-7563

  Lu, Jian ^a,b   Zhao, Bin ^c,d  

^a CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA Goddard Space and Flight Center   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annular mode; Anthropogenic effects; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Atmospheric circulation; Feedback; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR MODE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTS; FEEDBACK; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; WIND EFFECTS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERE-HYDROSPHERE INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; HEAT FLUX; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPPER OCEAN; WARMING; WIND STRESS; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84870030298     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00712.1     Document Type: Article

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