A multidiagnostic intercomparison of tropical-width time series using reanalyses and satellite observations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1061-1078

  Davis, Sean M ^a   Rosenlof, Karen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic effects; Climate change; Jets; Precipitation; Subtropics; Tropics; Tropopause; Upper troposphere

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; DATA SETS; DATA SOURCE; EDGE DEFINITION; HADLEY CELLS; INTERCOMPARISONS; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIOSONDE DATAS; REANALYSIS; ROBUST DETECTION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; STREAMFUNCTIONS; SUBTROPICS; TIME-PERIODS; TROPOPAUSE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; YIELD TRENDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; JETS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

TROPICS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; EVAPORATION; HADLEY CELL; LONGWAVE RADIATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADIOSONDE; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; WIND FIELD;

EID: 84857027430     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00127.1     Document Type: Article

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