The response of tropospheric circulation to perturbations in lower-stratospheric temperature

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 3672-3685

  Haigh, Joanna D ^a   Blackburn, Michael ^b   Day, Rebecca ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODELS; LOWER STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 20444494148     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3472.1     Document Type: Article

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