The effects of changes in sea surface temperature and CO 2 concentration on the quasi-biennial oscillation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1734-1749

  Kawatani, Yoshio ^a   Hamilton, Kevin ^b   Noda, Akira ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

General circulation models; Gravity waves; Middle atmosphere; Quasibiennial oscillation; Stratosphere

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; EQUATORIAL STRATOSPHERE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; IDEALIZED MODELS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; LOWERMOST STRATOSPHERE; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; MIDLATITUDES; NONSTATIONARY; PARAMETERIZED; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); VERTICAL VELOCITY; WAVE MOMENTUM FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; GRAVITY WAVES; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GRAVITY WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 84864834753     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0265.1     Document Type: Article

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