Insights into Earth's energy imbalance from multiple sources

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2016, Pages 7495-7505

  Trenberth, Kevin E ^a   Fasullo, John T ^a   von Schuckmann, Karina ^b   Cheng, Lijing ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MERCATOR OCÉAN   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Atmosphere land interaction; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Diabatic heating; Energy transport; Radiation budgets

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BUDGET CONTROL; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; STATISTICS;

ATMOSPHERE-LAND INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; DIABATIC HEATING; ENERGY TRANSPORT; RADIATION BUDGET;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ARGO; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIABATIC PROCESS; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY FLOW; HEAT FLOW; RADIATION BUDGET; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 84993985722     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0339.1     Document Type: Article

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