Quantifying uncertainty in future Southern Hemisphere circulation trends

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Watson, Peter A G ^a   Karoly, David J ^b   Allen, Myles R ^a   Faull, Nicholas ^a   Lee, David S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; PARAMETERIZATION; TROPOSPHERE;

COUPLED ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; FUTURE TRENDS; MULTI-MODEL; OZONE RECOVERY; POLAR-NIGHT JET; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE CIRCULATION; SPRING-IN; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION; ZONAL WIND;

RECOVERY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FUTURE PROSPECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; JET STREAM; OZONE DEPLETION; PARAMETERIZATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 84871295841     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL054158     Document Type: Article

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