On the warming in the tropical upper troposphere: Models versus observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Fu, Qiang ^a,b   Manabe, Syukuro ^c   Johanson, Celeste M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; TROPOSPHERE;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; STATIC STABILITY; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE; TROPICAL TROPOSPHERIC WARMING; TROPOSPHERIC WARMING; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

TROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

EID: 80051481664     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048101     Document Type: Article

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