Changes in global net radiative imbalance 1985-2012

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 5588-5597

  Allan, Richard P ^a   Liu, Chunlei ^a   Loeb, Norman G ^b   Palmer, Matthew D ^c   Roberts, Malcolm ^c   Smith, Doug ^c   Vidale, Pier Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate model; climate variability; energy balance; radiative flux; satellite data; temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; ENERGY BALANCE; SATELLITES; TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; RADIATIVE FLUXES; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; RADIATIVE FORCINGS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

PINATUBO;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE MODELING; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905326904     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060962     Document Type: Article

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