Atmospheric hydrological cycle in the tropics in twentieth century coupled climate simulations

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 655-678

  Wang, Hailan ^a,b   Lau, K M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clouds; Precipitation; Radiative flux; Temperature; Tropical hydrological cycle

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; RADIATIVE FLUX; TROPICAL HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATION BALANCE; SIMULATION; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 33646245205     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1279     Document Type: Article

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