The nature of Arctic polar vortices in chemistry-climate models

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 668, 2012, Pages 1681-1691

  Mitchell, D M ^a   Charlton Perez, A J ^a   Gray, L J ^b,h   Akiyoshi, H ^c   Butchart, N ^d   Hardiman, S C ^d   Morgenstern, O ^e   Nakamura, T ^c   Rozanov, E ^f,i   Shibata, K ^g   Smale, D ^e   Yamashita, Y ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^f WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

^g METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^h National Centre for Atmospheric Science ^*  (United Kingdom)

ⁱ ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CCMVal; ERA 40; Moments; Potential vorticity; Stratosphere

Indexed keywords

CCMVAL; CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; ERA-40; FILAMENTATION; GEOMETRIC METHOD; INTERCOMPARISONS; MOMENTS; POLAR VORTEX; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; REANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS; SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; VORTEX FILAMENTATION; ZONAL MEANS;

CLIMATE MODELS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

VORTEX FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOMETRY; POLAR VORTEX; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STRATOSPHERE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WARMING;

EID: 84868113049     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1909     Document Type: Article

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