A lower and more constrained estimate of climate sensitivity using updated observations and detailed radiative forcing time series

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 139-175

  Skeie, R B ^a   Berntsen, T ^a,b   Aldrin, M ^b,c   Holden, M ^c   Myhre, G ^a  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN COMPUTING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TIME SERIES;

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; ENERGY BALANCE MODELS; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; STRUCTURAL UNCERTAINTY; TEMPORAL DEVELOPMENT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENERGY BALANCE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84897044238     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-5-139-2014     Document Type: Article

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