On the state dependency of fast feedback processes in (paleo) climate sensitivity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 6484-6492

  Von Der Heydt, A S ^a   Kohler P ^b   Van De Wal, R S W ^a   Dijkstra, H A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

climate sensitivity; feedback processes; Pleistocene ice ages

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; FEEDBACK; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; FEEDBACK PROCESS; ICE AGE; INSTRUMENTAL DATA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; STATE-EQUILIBRIUM; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; INSTRUMENTATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; RADIATIVE FORCING; RECONSTRUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84911191675     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061121     Document Type: Article

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