Croll revisited: Why is the northern hemisphere warmer than the southern hemisphere?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 1457-1472

  Kang, Sarah M ^a   Seager, Richard ^b   Frierson, Dargan M W ^c   Liu, Xiaojuan ^c  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross equatorial ocean transport; Energy budget; Greenhouse trapping; Hemispheric temperature difference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939881252     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2147-z     Document Type: Article

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