Importance of instantaneous radiative forcing for rapid tropospheric adjustment

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 5-6, 2014, Pages 1409-1421

  Ogura, Tomoo ^a   Webb, Mark J ^b   Watanabe, Masahiro ^c   Lambert, F Hugo ^d   Tsushima, Yoko ^b   Sekiguchi, Miho ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate sensitivity; General circulation model; Lower tropospheric stability; Radiative forcing; Tropospheric adjustment

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC PROCESS; ADVECTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEATING; LATENT HEAT FLUX; RADIATIVE FORCING; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84906725328     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1955-x     Document Type: Article

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