Causes of reduced North Atlantic storm activity in a CAM3 simulation of the last glacial maximum

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 4793-4808

  Dohonoe, Aaron ^a   Battisti, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC WAVES; BAROTROPIC; CANDIDATE MECHANISMS; EDDY ACTIVITY; FEATURE-TRACKING; JET STRUCTURE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MIDLATITUDES; MODEL SIMULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC; STORM TRACK; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VELOCITY SHEAR;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; JETS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATORS; STORMS;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

BAROCLINIC WAVE; JET STREAM; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; SIMULATION; STORM TRACK; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TRACKING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 70350034051     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2776.1     Document Type: Article

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