Impact of decadal cloud variations on the Earth's energy budget

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 871-874

  Zhou, Chen ^a   Zelinka, Mark D ^a   Klein, Stephen A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; COOLING; DECADAL VARIATION; ENERGY BUDGET; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 85001086925     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2828     Document Type: Article

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