Small global-mean cooling due to volcanic radiative forcing

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 3979-3991

  Gregory, J M ^a,b   Andrews, T ^b   Good, P ^b   Mauritsen, T ^c   Forster, P M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Climate sensitivity; Ocean heat uptake; Radiative forcing; Transient climate response; Volcano

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COOLING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC AEROSOL;

EID: 84960374743     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3055-1     Document Type: Article

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