Radiative and dynamical feedbacks over the equatorial cold tongue: Results from nine atmospheric GCMs

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 4059-4074

  Sun, De Zheng ^a   Zhang, T ^a   Covey, C ^b   Klein, S A ^b   Collins, W D ^c   Hack, J J ^c   Kiehl, J T ^c   Meehl, G A ^c   Held, I M ^d   Suarez, M ^e  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FEEDBACK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DYNAMICAL FEEDBACK; EQUATORIAL COLD TONGUE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCMS); RADIATIVE FEEDBACK;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33645837615     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3835.1     Document Type: Article

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