Isentropic slopes, downgradient eddy fluxes, and the extratropical atmospheric circulation response to tropical tropospheric heating

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2292-2305

  Butler, Amy H ^a   Thompson, David W J ^b   Birner, Thomas ^b  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Dynamics; Potential vorticity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BAROCLINICITY; BAROTROPIC; DIFFUSIVE MODEL; EDDY FLUXES; EXTRATROPICAL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; IDEALIZED MODELS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; ISENTROPES; ISENTROPIC; ISENTROPIC SURFACES; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MERIDIONAL GRADIENTS; MIDLATITUDES; NUMERICAL MODELS; POLEWARD SHIFT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TRANSIENT EXPERIMENTS; TROPICAL TROPOSPHERE; WAVE GENERATION;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HEATING; METEOROLOGY; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BAROCLINIC MOTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEATING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING; WAVE GENERATION;

EID: 81555213075     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-10-05025.1     Document Type: Article

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