Land-sea warming contrast: the role of the horizontal energy transport

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 11-12, 2015, Pages 3493-3511

  Geoffroy, Olivier ^a   Saint Martin, David ^a   Voldoire, Aurore ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Climate sensitivity; Energy balance model; Forcing adjustment; Horizontal energy transport; Intermodel spread; Land sea contrast; Radiative feedbacks

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY BALANCE; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; WARMING;

EID: 84947491982     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2552-y     Document Type: Article

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