Evidence for control of atlantic subtropical humidity by large scale advection

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 4537-4540

  Pierrehumbert, Raymond T ^a   Roca, Rémy ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; TROPOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMIDITY CONTROL; LUMINANCE; SATELLITES; TEMPERATURE; WATER VAPOR;

BACKWARD LAGRANGIAN TRAJECTORY METHOD; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; SYNOPTIC SCALE TRANSIENT EDDIES; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; LAGRANGIAN TRAJECTORIES; LARGE-SCALE ADVECTION; SYNOPTIC-EDDY ACTIVITY; TROPOSPHERIC MOISTURE; WATER VAPOR CHANNELS; WATER VAPOR DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; TROPICS;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HUMID TROPICS; HUMIDITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032534914     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900203     Document Type: Article

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