Assessment of sea ice albedo radiative forcing and feedback over the Northern Hemisphere from 1982 to 2009 using satellite and reanalysis data

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1248-1259

  Cao, Yunfeng ^a,b   Liang, Shunlin ^a,b   Chen, Xiaona ^a,b   He, Tao ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; SATELLITES; SEA ICE;

CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; ICE ALBEDO FEEDBACK; KERNEL METHODS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; WARMING CLIMATE;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84922989514     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00389.1     Document Type: Article

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