Spontaneous transition to superrotation in warm climates simulated by CAM3

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Caballero, Rodrigo ^a   Huber, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CENOZOIC; EQUATORIAL SUPERROTATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE PROXY; SPONTANEOUS TRANSITION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WARM CLIMATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE MODELING; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WESTERLY;

EID: 77953570320     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043468     Document Type: Article

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