Evidence for a weakening of tropical surface wind extremes in response to atmospheric warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Gastineau, Guillaume ^a   Soden, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC WARMING; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE WARMS; EXTREME PRECIPITATION; EXTREME RAINFALL; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LIGHT WIND; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SURFACE WINDS; TROPICAL OCEAN; WIND EVENTS;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE WIND; WARMING; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 79956355255     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047138     Document Type: Article

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