Global energy budget changes to high latitude North Atlantic cooling and the tropical ITCZ response

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 1435-1452

  Cvijanovic, Ivana ^a,b   Chiang, John C H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy budget; ITCZ shift; Radiative feedbacks; Tropical sea surface temperatures

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ENERGY BUDGET; ENERGY FLUX; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84874294306     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1482-1     Document Type: Article

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