The indian ocean sea surface temperature warming simulated by CMIP5 models during the twentieth century: Competing forcing roles of GHGs and anthropogenic aerosols

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3348-3362

  Dong, Lu ^a,b   Zhou, Tianjun ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUXES;

GREENHOUSE GASES;

AEROSOL; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84899062536     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00396.1     Document Type: Article

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