Influence of twenty-first-century atmospheric and sea surface temperature forcing on West African climate

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 527-542

  Skinner, Christopher B ^a,b   Ashfaq, Moetasim ^a,b,c   Diffenbaugh, Noah S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Drought; Jets; Precipitation; Radiative forcing; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AFRICAN EASTERLY JET; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MOISTURE BALANCE; POTENTIAL SHIFT; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; TROPICAL EASTERLY JETS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WEST AFRICA;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; EXPERIMENTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; JETS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; JET FLOW; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WESTERLY;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84856954529     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4183.1     Document Type: Article

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