Increased tropical Atlantic wind shear in model projections of global warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a   Soden, Brian J ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HURRICANES; STATISTICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL;

WIND STRESS;

CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANE; WALKER CIRCULATION; WIND SHEAR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

POMATIOPSIS CALIFORNICA;

EID: 34250746868     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028905     Document Type: Article

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