Recommendations for diagnosing effective radiative forcing from climate models for CMIP6

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 121, Issue 20, 2016, Pages 12,460-12,475

  Forster, Piers M ^a   Richardson, Thomas ^a   Maycock, Amanda C ^a   Smith, Christopher J ^a   Samset, Bjorn H ^b   Myhre, Gunnar ^b   Andrews, Timothy ^c   Pincus, Robert ^d   Schulz, Michael ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CMIP; DETECTION METHOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 84989215515     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JD025320     Document Type: Article

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