Enhanced mid-latitude tropospheric warming in satellite measurements

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5777, 2006, Pages 1179-

  Fu, Qiang ^a,b   Johanson, Celeste M ^a   Wallace, John M ^a   Reichler, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES;

JET STREAMS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; STRATOSPHERIC COOLING; TROPOSPHERIC WARMING;

GLOBAL WARMING;

SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; STRATOSPHERE; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 33744461291     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1125566     Document Type: Article

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12. This study is supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant NA17RJ1232 and NASA grant NNG04GM23G. We thank D. L. Hartmann and J. Paegle for useful discussions.