The tropical precipitation response to orbital precession

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2010-2021

  Merlis, Timothy M ^a   Schneider, Tapio ^b   Bordoni, Simona ^b   Eisenman, Ian ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLAUSIUS-CLAPEYRON RELATIONSHIP; RELEVANT NONLINEARITIES; SEASONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; THERMODYNAMIC CHANGES; THERMODYNAMIC MECHANISM; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION;

ADVECTION; CLIMATOLOGY; DYNAMICS; MOISTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

LASERS;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE VARIATION; NONLINEARITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER BUDGET; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84874807289     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00186.1     Document Type: Article

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