On the longwave climate feedbacks

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7603-7610

  Huang, Yi ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climate prediction; Cloud forcing; Clouds; Feedback; Model comparison

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLOUD FORCING; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; MODEL COMPARISON; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TRANSIENT CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FEEDBACK;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLOUD COVER; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84884952414     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00025.1     Document Type: Article

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