Structure and variances of equatorial zonal circulation in a multimodel ensemble

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 2403-2419

  Yu, B ^a   Zwiers, F W ^b   Boer, G J ^a   Ting, M F ^c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Thermodynamic maintenance; Tropical zonal circulation; Variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIABATIC PROCESS; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; ZONAL FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

POMATIOPSIS CALIFORNICA;

EID: 84868157713     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1372-6     Document Type: Article

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