External influences on modeled and observed cloud trends

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4820-4840

  Marvel, Kate ^a,b   Zelinka, Mark ^a   Klein, Stephen A ^a   Bonfils, Céline ^a   Caldwell, Peter ^a   Doutriaux, Charles ^a   Santer, Benjamin D ^a   Taylor, Karl E ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Clouds; Pattern detection; Radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; SATELLITES; SIGNAL DETECTION;

CLOUD OBSERVATIONS; DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTIONS; EXTERNAL INFLUENCES; MULTIVARIATE SIGNALS; PATTERN DETECTION; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RESPONSE TO EXTERNAL FORCING; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE FORCING; CLOUD COVER; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE DATA; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84942906591     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00734.1     Document Type: Article

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