The position of the midlatitude storm track and eddy-driven westerlies in aquaplanet AGCMs

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3984-4000

  Lu, Jian ^a,b   Chen, Gang ^c   Frierson, Dargan M W ^d  

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

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate models; Eddies; General circulation models; Jets; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINICITY; BOUNDARY FORCING; CLIMATE MODEL; COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; EDDIES; EDDY HEAT FLUXES; ELIASSEN-PALM FLUX; FULLY-COUPLED; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HADLEY CELLS; LATITUDINAL VARIATION; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MIDLATITUDES; MODEL PHYSICS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PARAMETERIZED; POLEWARD SHIFT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOURCE REGION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SST PERTURBATIONS; STATIC STABILITY; STORM TRACK; SUBTROPICAL JET; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WAVE-ACTIVITY FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUXES; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLUX; STORMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BAROCLINIC MOTION; CLIMATE MODELING; JET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STORM TRACK; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WESTERLY;

EID: 78651083991     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3477.1     Document Type: Article

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