Observational evidences of Walker circulation change over the last 30 years contrasting with GCM results

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 7-8, 2013, Pages 1721-1732

  Sohn, B J ^a   Yeh, Sang Wook ^b   Schmetz, Johannes ^c   Song, Hwan Jin ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change over the tropics; Decadal variation; El Nino; Walker circulation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; COOLING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPOSPHERE; WALKER CIRCULATION; WARMING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84875694872     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1484-z     Document Type: Article

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