Warm season response over North America to a shutdown of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and CO 2 increases

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 6701-6720

  Pu, Bing ^a,b   Vizy, Edward K ^b   Cook, Kerry H ^b  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; Precipitation; Regional effects; Regional models

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CO; ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY; CLIMATE IMPACTS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EAST COAST; EASTERN PACIFIC; GULF OF MEXICO; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; ME-XICO; MOISTURE CONVERGENCE; MOISTURE FLUXES; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; RAINFALL VARIATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; REGIONAL EFFECTS; REGIONAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); VORTICITY BALANCE; WARM SEASONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPORATION; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RAIN;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MOISTURE CONTENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF OF MEXICO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867662068     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00611.1     Document Type: Article

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