Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 73-76

  Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a   Soden, Brian J ^b   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^a   Held, Isaac M ^a   Leetmaa, Ants ^a   Harrison, Matthew J ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; NATURAL SCIENCES; RADIATION; THERMOANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELS; RADIATIVE BALANCE; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

ATMOSPHERICS; TROPICS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; RADIATION BALANCE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TROPICAL REGION; WALKER CIRCULATION; ZONAL WIND; CONVECTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ACCURACY; AIR; ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; FORCE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; TROPICS; WIND; CLIMATE; MODEL; TEMPERATURE; HISTORY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TROPIC CLIMATE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

SEA WATER;

AIR MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WIND;

EID: 33646927242     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04744     Document Type: Article

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