Changes in the strength and width of the Hadley Circulation since 1871

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1169-1175

  Liu, J ^a   Song, M ^a   Hu, Y ^b   Ren, X ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HADLEY CELL; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84864216735     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-1169-2012     Document Type: Article

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