Comments on "current GCMs' unrealistic negative feedback in the arctic"

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7783-7788

  Pithan, Felix ^a   Mauritsen, Thorsten ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic; Feedback; General circulation models; Inversions; Model comparison; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884936544     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00331.1     Document Type: Erratum

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