Quantification of temperature response to CO2 forcing in atmosphere–ocean general circulation models

Climatic Change

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 287-305

  Tsutsui, Junichi ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PROBABILISTIC ASSESSMENTS; TRANSIENT TEMPERATURE; TRANSIENT TEMPERATURE RESPONSE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC GAS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL METHOD; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 84994361361     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1832-9     Document Type: Article

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