The energetics response to a warmer climate: Relative contributions from the transient and stationary eddies

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 105-120

  Hernandez Deckers D ^a,b   Von Storch, J S ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSER RESOLUTION; CONVERSION RATES; COUPLED MODELS; DUAL-RESPONSE; EDDY COMPONENTS; ENERGY CYCLE; LEC; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; NORTHERN LATITUDES; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; STATIC STABILITY; SURFACE WARMING; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WARMING PATTERNS; COUPLED MODELING;

POLES; POTENTIAL ENERGY; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TROPOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; KINETICS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EDDY; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

EID: 84865085545     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-2-105-2011     Document Type: Article

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