The global stationary wave response to climate change in a coupled GCM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 540-556

  Joseph, Renu ^a   Ting, Mingfang ^a   Kushner, Paul J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT;

CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WAVE;

EID: 1642286136     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0540:TGSWRT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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