Estimates of the water vapor climate feedback during el Niño-Southern Oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 6404-6412

  Dessler, A E ^a   Wong, S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECTS; AVERAGE TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODEL; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENSO CYCLE; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EXTRATROPICAL; FULLY-COUPLED; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; REANALYSIS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; ROOT CAUSE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WATER VAPOR FEEDBACKS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FEEDBACK; GLOBAL WARMING; MOISTURE; NASA; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77649302779     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3052.1     Document Type: Article

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