Reconciled climate response estimates from climate models and the energy budget of Earth

2016/06/27 by Mark Richardson, Kevin Cowtan, Ed Hawkins +1 · 99 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Atmospheric Ozone and Climate #Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics #Atmospheric sciences #Climate change #Climate commitment #Climate model #Climate sensitivity #Climate variability and models #Climatology #Ecology #Effects of global warming #Energy budget #Environmental science #Forcing (mathematics) #Geology #Global warming #Radiative forcing #Transient climate simulation

paper · open access · doi:10.1038/nclimate3066

published in Nature Climate Change 6(10), 931-935 (Springer Science and Business Media LLC)

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