Evolution and modulation of tropical heating from the last glacial maximum through the twenty-first century

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 1501-1519

  Hoyos, Carlos D ^a   Webster, Peter J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Projections of the warm pool for the twenty first century; Tropical climate, areas of convection in last glacial maximum, Mid Holocene and present; Tropical convective heating; Tropical warm pool

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; HEATING; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WARM POOL;

EID: 84859004058     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1181-3     Document Type: Article

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