Interaction between the Brewer-Dobson circulation and the Hadley circulation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 4303-4316

  Salby, Murry L ^a   Callaghan, Patrick F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Atmospheric Systems and Analysis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT CONVECTION; MASS TRANSFER; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ADIABATIC COOLING; BREWER-DOBSON CIRCULATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION (QBO); STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DOWNWELLING; HADLEY CELL; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 28244480368     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3509.1     Document Type: Article

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