Have aerosols caused the observed atlantic multidecadal variability?

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1135-1144

  Zhang, Rong ^a   Delworth, Thomas L ^a   Dixon, Keith W ^a   Held, Isaac M ^a   Ming, Yi ^a   Msadek, Rym ^a   Rosati, Anthony J ^a   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a   Sutton, Rowan ^b   Hodson, Daniel L R ^b   Robson, Jon ^b   Kushnir, Yochanan ^c   Ting, Mingfang ^c   Marshall, John ^d  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multidecadal variability

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL INDIRECT EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; MULTIDECADAL VARIATIONS; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; RADIATION EFFECTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AEROSOL; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; HADLEY CELL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPPER OCEAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84873417864     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0331.1     Document Type: Article

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