Spatiotemporal patterns of changes in maximum and minimum temperatures in multi-model simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Zhou, Liming ^a   Dickinson, Robert E ^a   Dirmeyer, Paul ^b   Dai, Aiguo ^c   Min, Seung Ki ^d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; COOLING WATER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS; WATER VAPOR;

20TH CENTURIES; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPORS; CLOUD COVERS; COUPLED ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; DIURNAL CYCLES; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; ENHANCED SURFACES; FORCINGS; HIGH-LATITUDES; LAND SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; LONG-WAVE RADIATIONS; MULTI MODELS; RADIATIVE COOLING; SHORT-WAVE RADIATIONS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL PATTERNS; TEMPORAL PATTERNS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLOUD COVER; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LONGWAVE RADIATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 62749192169     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036141     Document Type: Article

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