Hadley cell dynamics in a virtually dry snowball Earth atmosphere

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 116-128

  Voigt, Aiko ^a   Held, Isaac M ^b   Marotzke, Jochem ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; General circulation models; Hadley circulation; Momentum; Planetary atmospheres

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VORTICITY; ANGULAR MOMENTUM CONSERVATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; AXISYMMETRIC; DRY CONVECTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HADLEY CELLS; HADLEY CIRCULATION; IN-LINE; MOMENTUM BALANCES; MOMENTUM TRANSPORTS; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SNOWBALL EARTH; VERTICAL DIFFUSION; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS; ZONAL MOMENTUM BALANCE;

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION; MOMENTUM;

CLOUDS;

ADVECTION; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DIFFUSION; EDDY; HADLEY CELL; INSOLATION; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

EID: 84855776072     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-083.1     Document Type: Article

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