Relationship between precipitation in the great plains of the United States and global ssts: Insights from the ipcc AR4 models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2941-2958

  Capotondi, Antonietta ^a   Alexander, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHANGES; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; AUSTRALIA; CONTROL SIMULATION; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; HIGH LATITUDES; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; LOW FREQUENCY; MIDLATITUDES; NORTH ATLANTIC; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION TIME SERIES; PRECIPITATION VARIATION; SCALE PATTERN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTH AMERICA; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES; TROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DROUGHT; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AUSTRALIA; GREAT PLAINS; INDIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 77954355296     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3291.1     Document Type: Article

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