A mechanism for abrupt climate change associated with tropical Pacific SSTs

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 242-256

  Vavrus, Steve ^a   Notaro, Michael ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND STRESS; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EXTRATROPICAL ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRANSIENT GREENHOUSE FORCING; ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SSTS);

CLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSE GAS; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 33644677093     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3608.1     Document Type: Article

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