The importance of atmospheric dynamics in the Northern Hemisphere wintertime climate response to changes in the earth's orbit

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1315-1325

  Hall, Alex ^a   Clement, Amy ^b   Thompson, David W J ^c   Broccoli, Anthony ^d   Jackson, Charles ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ORBITS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; CLIMATE VARIABILITY;

EARTH (PLANET);

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EEMIAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ORBITAL FORCING;

EID: 20444476098     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3327.1     Document Type: Article

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