Robust increases in midlatitude static stability in simulations of global warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Frierson, Dargan M W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; TROPOSPHERE;

COUPLED CLIMATE MODELS; DRY STATIC STABILITY; MERIDIONAL GRADIENTS;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SIMULATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 34548016274     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027504     Document Type: Article

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