Processes controlling Southern Ocean shortwave climate feedbacks in CESM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 616-622

  Kay, J E ^a,b   Medeiros, B ^a   Hwang, Y T ^c   Gettelman, A ^a   Perket, J ^d   Flanner, M G ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

climate feedbacks; clouds; jet; sea ice; shortwave radiation; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; JETS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; THERMODYNAMICS;

CLIMATE FEEDBACKS; CLOUD LIQUID WATERS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; COMPETING EFFECTS; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; NATURALLY OCCURRING; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

PROCESS CONTROL;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; JET STREAM; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WARMING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84892665927     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058315     Document Type: Article

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