Dependence of global radiative feedbacks on evolving patterns of surface heat fluxes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 9877-9885

  Rugenstein, Maria A A ^a,b   Caldeira, Ken ^b   Knutti, Reto ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate feedbacks; climate sensitivity; ocean heat uptake; slab ocean; surface heat fluxes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE FEEDBACKS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; OCEAN HEAT UPTAKE; SLAB OCEAN; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 84989318904     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070907     Document Type: Article

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