Response of tropical precipitation to global warming

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 123-138

  Romps, David M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Cloud resolving models; Precipitation; Tropics

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PRESSURE; CLOUD RESOLVING MODELS; CLOUD VELOCITY; CLOUD-RESOLVING SIMULATION; EFFECT OF CO; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; PARAMETERIZED; PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITATION EXTREMES; PRECIPITATION FLUXES; TROPICAL CONVECTION; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; TROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONVECTIVE CLOUD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SIMULATION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 79251491692     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3542.1     Document Type: Article

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