Atmospheric responses of Gill-type and Lindzen-Nigam models to global warming

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 6165-6173

  An, Soon Il ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Climate sensitivity; Model comparison; Pacific Ocean; Sea surface temperature; Walker circulation

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; MODEL COMPARISON; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WALKER CIRCULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 83755207532     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3971.1     Document Type: Article

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