Implications for climate sensitivity from the response to individual forcings

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 386-389

  Marvel, Kate ^a,b   Schmidt, Gavin A ^b   Miller, Ron L ^a,b   Nazarenko, Larissa S ^b,c  

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

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84962268472     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2888     Document Type: Article

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