Effect of tropospheric temperature change on the zonal mean circulation and SH winter extratropical cyclones

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-32

  Lim, Eun Pa ^a   Simmonds, Ian ^b  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Baroclinicity; Climate change; Extratropical cyclones; Meridional temperature gradient; Static stability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CYCLONE; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 67349091475     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0444-0     Document Type: Article

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