Explorations of atmosphere-ocean-ice climates on an aquaplanet and their meridional energy transports

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1593-1611

  Enderton, Daniel ^a   Marshall, John ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION OF SOLAR RADIATION; CLIMATE SYSTEM; COLD CLIMATE; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; EARTH RADIATION BUDGET EXPERIMENTS; ENERGY TRANSPORT; GEOMETRICAL CONSTRAINTS; HEAT TRANSPORT; ICE CLIMATE; MERIDIONAL GRADIENTS; MERIDIONAL HEAT TRANSPORTS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; OCEANIC COMPONENTS; POLAR ICE CAPS; ROTATION RATE; SEA ICE MODELS; SIMPLE MODEL; SOLAR FLUX; WARM CLIMATES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENTHALPY; EQUIPMENT TESTING; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALBEDO; HEAT TRANSFER; ICE CAP; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; RADIATION BUDGET; SEA ICE; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 69849111175     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2680.1     Document Type: Article

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