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Summary: LETTERS
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 22 JANUARY 2012 | DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1375
Observed changes in top-of-the-atmosphere
radiation and upper-ocean heating consistent
within uncertainty
Norman G. Loeb1
*, John M. Lyman2,3
, Gregory C. Johnson3
, Richard P. Allan4
, David R. Doelling1
,
Takmeng Wong1
, Brian J. Soden5
and Graeme L. Stephens6
Global climate change results from a small yet persistent
imbalance between the amount of sunlight absorbed by
Earth and the thermal radiation emitted back to space1
.
An apparent inconsistency has been diagnosed between
interannual variations in the net radiation imbalance inferred
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