Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Earth’s changing global atmospheric energy cycle in response to climate change

  • Yefeng Pan,
  • Liming Li,
  • Xun Jiang,
  • Gan Li,
  • Wentao Zhang,
  • Xinyue Wang,
  • Andrew P. Ingersoll

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14367
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The long-term Lorenz energy cycle of Earth’s global remains poorly explored. Here, the authors use three independent meteorological data sets from the modern satellite era (1979–2013) to examine the temporal characteristics of such a cycle.