Implications of recent multimodel attribution studies for climate sensitivity

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 5-6, 2016, Pages 1387-1396

  Lewis, Nicholas ^a  

^a Three Ways special school   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AR5; Climate sensitivity; Effective ocean diffusivity attributable warming; Profile likelihood; Transient climate response

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSIVITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WARMING;

EID: 84959145474     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2653-7     Document Type: Article

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