Rapid Adjustments of Cloud and Hydrological Cycle to Increasing CO2: a Review

Current Climate Change Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 103-113

  Kamae, Youichi ^a   Watanabe, Masahiro ^b   Ogura, Tomoo ^a   Yoshimori, Masakazu ^c   Shiogama, Hideo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate sensitivity; Effective radiative forcing; Hydrological cycle; Instantaneous radiative forcing; Land sea thermal contrast; Low cloud

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964500542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21986061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40641-015-0007-5     Document Type: Review

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