Northern hemisphere extratropical cyclones in a warming climate in the higem high-resolution climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 5336-5352

  Catto, Jennifer L ^a   Shaffrey, Len C ^a   Hodges, Kevin I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Cyclones; Meridional overturning circulation; North Atlantic; Regional effects; Storm tracks

Indexed keywords

850-HPA; CIRCULATION CHANGES; ENHANCED SURFACE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; EXTRATROPICAL STORMS; FEATURE-TRACKING; FORCINGS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; REGIONAL EFFECTS; STORM TRACK; STORM TRACKS; WARMING CLIMATE; ZONAL WIND;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; SEA LEVEL; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CYCLONE; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OVERTURN; STORM TRACK; TROPOSPHERE; WINTER; ZONAL WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 80755125200     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4181.1     Document Type: Article

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