Northern hemisphere stationary waves in future climate projections

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 6341-6353

  Brandefelt, Jenny ^a   Körnich, Heiner ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; GLOBAL WARMING; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

ATMOSPHERIC CO; ATMOSPHERIC STATIONARY WAVES; BAROTROPIC; CLIMATE SYSTEMS; COUPLED GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS; FUTURE CLIMATES; GREEN HOUSE GAS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATIONS; LINEAR CALCULATIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MEAN FLOWS; MEAN-WINDS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; STATIONARY WAVES; ZONAL MEANS;

SURFACE WAVES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GREENHOUSE GAS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; STANDING WAVE; WINTER;

EID: 60749135607     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2373.1     Document Type: Article

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