Interpreting the atmospheric circulation trend during the last half of the twentieth century: Application of an adjoint model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 4629-4646

  Blessing, Simon ^a,d   Greatbatch, Richard J ^b,c   Fraedrich, Klaus ^a   Lunkeit, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d FastOpt GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ADJOINT; ADJOINT MODELS; ALEUTIAN LOWS; ATLANTIC; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; DYNAMICAL MODELS; ENERGY NORMS; LEAD TIMES; MODEL RESPONSES; NONLINEAR MODELS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION INDICES; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTHERN ANNULAR MODES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OPTIMAL FORCING; ROSSBY WAVES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STATE VARIABLES; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; TWENTIETH CENTURIES; UPWARD TRENDS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ADJOINT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 56349105140     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1990.1     Document Type: Article

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