Reexamining the relationship between climate sensitivity and the Southern Hemisphere radiation budget in CMIP models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 9298-9312

  Grise, Kevin M ^a   Polvani, Lorenzo M ^b,c   Fasullo, John T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climate sensitivity; Geographic location entity; Models and modeling; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Radiation budgets; Southern Hemisphere; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLOUDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIATION; TROPICS;

CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; RADIATION BUDGET; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; NET RADIATION; RADIATION BUDGET; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84950138463     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0031.1     Document Type: Article

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