Causes for decadal variations of wind speed over land: Sensitivity studies with a global climate model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Bichet, A ^a   Wild, M ^a   Folini, D ^a   Schr, C ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WIND POWER;

AEROSOL EMISSIONS; CLIMATE FORCINGS; FEEDBACK PROCESS; FORCINGS; GAS CONCENTRATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL WINDS; LAND SURFACE; MIDLATITUDES; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE EVAPORATION; SURFACE WIND SPEED; TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS; WIND SPEED;

WIND EFFECTS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECADAL VARIATION; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; LAND SURFACE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TREND ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

EUROPE; INDIA;

EID: 84861854155     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051685     Document Type: Article

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