Quantifying climate forcings and feedbacks over the last millennium in the CMIP5-PMIP3 models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1161-1178

  Atwood, A R ^a   Wu, E ^b   Frierson, D M W ^b   Battisti, D S ^b   Sachs, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

General circulation models; Models and modeling; Paleoclimate; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Radiative fluxes; Radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BUDGET CONTROL; FEEDBACK; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEA ICE; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; PALEOCLIMATES; RADIATIVE FLUXES; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RADIATIVE PERTURBATION; WATER VAPOR FEEDBACKS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIATIVE FORCING;

EID: 84957828231     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0063.1     Document Type: Article

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