Response of the Antarctic stratosphere to warm pool El Niño Events in the GEOS CCM

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 9659-9669

  Hurwitz, M M ^a,e   Song, I S ^a,b,f   Oman, L D ^a   Newman, P A ^a   Molod, A M ^a,c   Frith, S M ^a,d   Nielsen, J E ^a,d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^e MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Next Generation Model Development Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GOES; PLANETARY WAVE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WARM POOL;

ANTARCTICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 80053008506     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-9659-2011     Document Type: Review

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