Dependence of climate response on meridional structure of external thermal forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5593-5600

  Kang, Sarah M ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^b  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate sensitivity; Cloud radiative effects; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CLOUD RADIATIVE EFFECTS; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL SURFACE WARMING; MERIDIONAL DISTRIBUTION; OCEAN MIXED LAYERS; TROPICAL TEMPERATURES;

TROPICS;

ADIABATIC PROCESS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXED LAYER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 84904490458     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00622.1     Document Type: Article

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