The linkage between stratospheric water vapor and surface temperature in an observation-constrained coupled general circulation model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 48, Issue 7-8, 2017, Pages 2671-2683

  Wang, Yuan ^a   Su, Hui ^a   Jiang, Jonathan H ^a   Livesey, Nathaniel J ^a   Santee, Michelle L ^a   Froidevaux, Lucien ^a   Read, William G ^a   Anderson, John ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

General circulation model; Global warming; Radiative forcing and feedbacks; Stratospheric water vapor

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84974853311     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3231-3     Document Type: Article

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