Estimating the contribution of sea ice response to climate sensitivity in a climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 8597-8607

  Caldeira, Ken ^a   Cvijanovic, Ivana ^a,b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climate sensitivity; General circulation models

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); FEEDBACK; ICE; ICE CONTROL; SEA ICE;

CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CONTROL SIMULATION; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; SLAB OCEAN MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84909592257     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00042.1     Document Type: Article

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