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gfdl's home page > gfdl on-line bibliography > 2001: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 127(571), 1-24
Exploring natural and anthropogenic variation of climate
| Manabe, S., T. R. Knutson, R. J. Stouffer, and T. L. Delworth, 2001: Exploring natural and anthropogenic variation of climate. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 127(571), 1-24. |
| Abstract: This lecture discusses the low-frequency variability of surface temperature using a coupled ocean-atmosphere-land-surface model developed at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA. Despite the highly idealized parametrization of various physical processes, the coupled model simulates reasonably well the variability of local and global mean surface temperature. The first half of the lecture explores the basic physical mechanisms responsible for the variability. The second half examines the trends of local surface temperature during the last half century in the context of decadal variability simulated by the coupled model. |