Weakening trend in the atmospheric heat source over the Tibetan Plateau during recent decades. Part II: Connection with climate warming

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 4197-4212

  Duan, Anmin ^a   Wu, Guoxiong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HEAT; CLIMATE WARMING; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; FORCINGS; GENERAL CIRCULATION; HEATING SOURCE; HIGH LATITUDES; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; INTERCOMPARISONS; REANALYSIS; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SULFATE AEROSOLS; SURFACE FLOW; SURFACE WIND SPEED; SURFACE WINDS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERIC WARMING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

OZONE; TROPOSPHERE; WIND EFFECTS;

PRESSURE GRADIENT;

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT SOURCE; JET STREAM; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SURFACE WIND; TROPOSPHERE; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 69249104934     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2699.1     Document Type: Article

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