Radiative Forcing of Quadrupling CO2

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2496-2508

  Zhang, Minghong ^a   Huang, Yi ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

ANALYSIS METHOD; CLIMATE FEEDBACK ANALYSIS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; LINEAR-DECOMPOSITION; RADIATION VARIATIONS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; VALIDATION TEST;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; RADIATIVE FORCING; STRATOSPHERE; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84896949308     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00535.1     Document Type: Article

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