Glacial cooling in the Tropics: Exploring the roles of tropospheric water vapor, surface wind speed, and boundary layer processes

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 2144-2157

  Seager, R ^a   Clement, A C ^a   Cane, M A ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS; WIND EFFECTS;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); MILANKOVITCH CYCLES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ICE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; GLACIATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 0034233628     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<2144:GCITTE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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