Sensitivity of tropical intraseasonal variability to the pattern of climate warming

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 32-47

  Maloney, Eric D ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^b,c  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aquaplanet; climate change; MJO; SST distribution

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICS;

AQUAPLANET; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MJO; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SST DISTRIBUTION; TROPICAL INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 84876716646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012MS000171     Document Type: Article

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