Top-of-atmosphere radiative contribution to unforced decadal global temperature variability in climate models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5175-5183

  Brown, Patrick T ^a   Li, Wenhong ^a   Li, Laifang ^a   Ming, Yi ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth's energy balance; global mean temperature; interdecadal Pacific oscillation; internal variability; top of atmosphere radiation; unforced variability

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BALANCE;

EARTH'S ENERGIES; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; INTER-DECADAL PACIFIC OSCILLATIONS; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; UNFORCED VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY FLUX; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84904520496     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060625     Document Type: Article

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