Water vapor and the dynamics of climate changes

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Schneider, Tapio ^a   O'Gorman, Paul A ^b   Levine, Xavier J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC STATIC STABILITY; BAROCLINIC EDDY; CIRCULATION CHANGES; COLDER CLIMATE; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; DYNAMIC PROCESS; EXTRATROPICAL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CIRCULATION; LATENT HEAT RELEASE; NONMONOTONIC; POSSIBLE FUTURES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LATENT HEAT;

WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BAROCLINIC MOTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HADLEY CELL; LATENT HEAT FLUX; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77949798099     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009RG000302     Document Type: Review

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