Anthropogenic effects on the subtropical jet in the Southern Hemisphere: Aerosols versus long-lived greenhouse gases

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rotstayn, L D ^a   Collier, M A ^a   Jeffrey, S J ^b   Kidston, J ^c   Syktus, J I ^b   Wong, K K ^b  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asia; Australia; climatology, climate change and variability; global climate modeling; particles and aerosols; Southern Hemisphere, subtropical jet

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GASES; TROPOSPHERE;

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; ASIA; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; AUSTRALIA; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELING; SUBTROPICAL JET; WESTERN PACIFIC WARM POOL;

TROPICS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HADLEY CELL; JET FLOW; PARTICLE SIZE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPORAL PERIOD; WARM POOL;

ASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84876184460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014030     Document Type: Article

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