Cloud feedbacks on greenhouse warming in the superparameterized climate model SP-CCSM4

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1185-1204

  Bretherton, Christopher S ^a   Blossey, Peter N ^a   Stan, Cristiana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate modeling; cloud feedbacks; cloud resolving models; superparameterization

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLOUDS; FEEDBACK; GREENHOUSES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; CLOUD FEEDBACKS; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MID-LATITUDE STORMS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUPERPARAMETERIZATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; CUMULUS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PARAMETERIZATION; WARMING;

EID: 85027950951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000355     Document Type: Article

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