Sensitivities of zonal mean atmospheric circulation to SST warming in an aqua-planet model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Gang ^a   Plumb, R Alan ^b   Lu, Jian ^c,d  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; BREWER-DOBSON CIRCULATION; EXTRATROPICAL; HADLEY CELLS; HIGH LATITUDES; SST PERTURBATIONS; TROPOSPHERIC WAVES; TROPOSPHERIC WINDS; ZONAL MEANS; ZONAL WIND;

CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

CLOUDS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; HADLEY CELL; PERTURBATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 77954390444     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043473     Document Type: Article

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