The climate time scale in the approach to radiative-convective equilibrium

In this paper, we discuss the importance of the surface boundary condition (fixed versus interactive surface temperature) for the long time scale of approach to Radiative-Convective Equilibrium (RCE). Using a simple linearized two-variable model for surface-atmosphere interaction, we derive an analy...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Emanuel, Kerry Andrew, Cronin, Timothy Wallace
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97933
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7807-2878
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-2082