Stratospheric variability and tropospheric annular-mode timescales

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Simpson, I R ^a   Hitchcock, P ^a   Shepherd, T G ^a   Scinocca, J F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; TROPOSPHERE;

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE MODEL; MODEL RESPONSE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; SEASONALITY; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS; TIME-SCALES;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; LATITUDE; SEASONALITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

CANADA;

EID: 80455137078     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049304     Document Type: Article

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