Energy of midlatitude transient eddies in idealized simulations of changed climates

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 5797-5806

  O'Gorman, Paul A ^a,b   Schneider, Tapio ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; KINETIC ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

BAROCLINIC ZONES; COLDER CLIMATES; COMPETING EFFECTS; EDDY KINETIC ENERGIES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; LONG WAVES; MEAN TEMPERATURES; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; MIDLATITUDE; OPTICAL THICKNESS; RADIATIVE FORCING; STATIC STABILITIES; THERMAL STRUCTURES;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

BAROCLINIC MODE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; KINETIC ENERGY; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; OPTICAL DEPTH; POTENTIAL ENERGY; RADIATIVE FORCING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 52049102155     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2099.1     Document Type: Article

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