Recent trends of the tropical hydrological cycle inferred,fromglobal precipitation climatology project and international satellite cloud climatology project data

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Zhou, Y P ^a,b   Xu, Kuan Man ^c   Sud, Y C ^b   Betts, A K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Atmospheric Research ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SATELLITES;

GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; HADLEY CELLS; HADLEY CIRCULATION; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MODELING STUDIES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; POLEWARD SHIFT; PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY; RECENT TRENDS; REGIONAL SCALE; SATELLITE DATA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION;

TROPICS;

ARID REGION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD COVER; DATA SET; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HADLEY CELL; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OVERTURN; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONALITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WALKER CIRCULATION;

EID: 80053529787     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015197     Document Type: Article

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