On the link between Hadley circulation changes and radiative feedback processes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Yoshimori, Masakazu ^a,b   Broccoli, Anthony J ^a  

^a Center for Environmental Prediction   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL RESPONSE; EXTRATROPICS; FEEDBACK ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK PROCESS; FUTURE CLIMATE; HADLEY CIRCULATION; HEAT TRANSPORT; LAPSE RATE; LONG WAVES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PALEOCLIMATES; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGES;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

FEEDBACK;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; HADLEY CELL; IRRADIANCE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADIATIVE FORCING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 72149087440     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040488     Document Type: Article

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