Global energy budgets and 'Trenberth diagrams' for the climates of terrestrial and gas giant planets

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue 695, 2016, Pages 703-720

  Read, P L ^a   Barstow, J ^a   Charnay, B ^b   Chelvaniththilan, S ^a   Irwin, P G J ^a   Knight, S ^c   Lebonnois, S ^b   Lewis, S R ^d   Mendonca J ^a,e   Montabone, L ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Royal Meteorological Society   (United Kingdom)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate equilibrium; Energy budget; Planetary atmospheres; Radiative heat flux; Sensible heat flux

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; HEAT FLUX; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; PLANETS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ENERGY BUDGETS; GLOBAL ENERGY BUDGET; NUMERICAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL SIMULATIONS; OBSERVATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; RADIATIVE HEAT FLUXES; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84956864025     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2704     Document Type: Article

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