Mechanisms contributing to the warming hole and the consequent U.S. East-west differential of heat extremes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6394-6408

  Meehl, Gerald A ^a   Arblaster, Julie M ^a,b   Branstator, Grant ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Forecast verification skill; Forecasting techniques; Nowcasting; Operational forecasting

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MEAN; CLIMATE SIMULATION; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; CONVECTIVE HEATING; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; COUPLED MODELS; DATA SETS; ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; FORECAST VERIFICATIONS; FORECASTING TECHNIQUES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INTER-DECADAL PACIFIC OSCILLATIONS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MOISTURE CONVERGENCE; MULTI-MODEL; NOWCASTING; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TIME-SCALES; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; NOWCASTING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864556363     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00655.1     Document Type: Article

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