Multiannual ocean-atmosphere adjustments to radiative forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 5643-5659

  Rugenstein, Maria A A ^a   Gregory, Jonathan M ^b,c   Schaller, Nathalie ^a   Sedlácek, Jan ^a   Knutti, Reto ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circulation Dynamics; Coupled models; Feedback; Forcing; Models and modeling; Ocean circulation; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDBACK; HEAT FLUX; TIME MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; COUPLED MODELS; FORCING; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; INITIAL CONDITION ENSEMBLES; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; RADIATIVE FORCINGS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; RADIATIVE FORCING;

EID: 84992429656     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0312.1     Document Type: Article

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