CAPE variations in the current climate and in a climate change

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1997-2015

  Ye, Bing ^a   Del Genio, Anthony D ^b   Lo, Kenneth K W ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Convective system; Parameterization

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 0032463190     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442-11.8.1997     Document Type: Article

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