Cloud variations and the Earth's energy budget Academic Article

abstract

• The question of whether clouds are the cause of surface temperature changes, rather than acting as a feedback in response to those temperature changes, is explored using data obtained between 2000 and 2010. An energy budget calculation shows that the radiative impact of clouds accounts for little of the observed climate variations. It is also shown that observations of the lagged response of top-of-atmosphere (TOA) energy fluxes to surface temperature variations are not evidence that clouds are causing climate change. Copyright 2011 by the American Geophysical Union.

authors

• Dessler, Andrew

published proceedings

• GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

altmetric score

• 14.656

author list (cited authors)

• Dessler, A. E.

citation count

• 21

complete list of authors

• Dessler, AE

publication date

• October 2011

publisher

• American Geophysical Union (AGU)  Publisher

published in

• Geophysical Research Letters  Journal

keywords

• 13 Climate Action
• 37 Earth Sciences
• 3701 Atmospheric Sciences
• 7 Affordable And Clean Energy

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1029/2011GL049236

start page

• n/a

end page

• n/a

volume

• 38

issue

• 19

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1029%2F2011gl049236

user-defined tag

• 13 Climate Action
• 7 Affordable and Clean Energy