Expansion of the Hadley cell under global warming: Winter versus summer

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 8387-8393

  Kang, Sarah M ^a   Lu, Jian ^b,c  

^a Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; Climatology; Eddies; Hadley circulation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EDDIES; HADLEY CELLS; HADLEY CIRCULATION; HIGHER LATITUDES; MOMENTUM CONSERVING; SCALING ANALYSIS; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SEASONALITY; STATIC STABILITY; ZONAL WIND;

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING;

CLOUDS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BAROCLINIC MODE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; EDDY; GLOBAL WARMING; HADLEY CELL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SUMMER; TREND ANALYSIS; WINTER; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 84871865573     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00323.1     Document Type: Article

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