Why does aerosol forcing control historical global-mean surface temperature change in CMIP5 models?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 6608-6625

  Rotstayn, Leon D ^a   Collier, Mark A ^a   Shindell, Drew T ^b   Boucher, Olivier ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Climate change; Climate models; Radiative forcing; Regression analysis; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; DOMINANT FACTOR; ENHANCED SENSITIVITY; GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TRANSIENT WARMING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AEROSOL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; RADIATIVE FORCING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84945901895     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00712.1     Document Type: Article

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