Atmospheric circulation trends, 1950-2000: The relative roles of sea surface temperature forcing and direct atmospheric radiative forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 396-413

  Deser, Clara ^a   Phillips, Adam S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEUTIAN LOWS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COMBINED EFFECTS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODELS; COUPLED MODELS; DIRECT IMPACTS; FORCING AGENTS; FORCINGS; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHTS; GLOBAL PATTERNS; MIDLATITUDE; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; POLEWARD SHIFTS; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES; STRATOSPHERIC OZONES; TIME-VARYING; TWENTIETH CENTURIES; VOLCANIC AEROSOLS; WALKER CIRCULATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; MODEL STRUCTURES; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; RAIN; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TELECONNECTION; WALKER CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 64049095858     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2453.1     Document Type: Article

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