On the lack of stratospheric dynamical variability in low-top versions of the CMIP5 models

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2494-2505

  Charlton Perez, Andrew J ^a   Baldwin, Mark P ^b   Birner, Thomas ^c   Black, Robert X ^d   Butler, Amy H ^e   Calvo, Natalia ^f   Davis, Nicholas A ^c   Gerber, Edwin P ^g   Gillett, Nathan ^h   Hardiman, Steven ⁱ   Kim, Junsu ^j   Krüger, Kirstin ^p   Lee, Yun Young ^d   Manzini, Elisa ^k   McDaniel, Brent A ^l   Polvani, Lorenzo ^m   Reichler, Thomas ^j   Shaw, Tiffany A ^m   Sigmond, Michael ⁿ   Son, Seok Woo ^o   Toohey, Matthew ^p   Wilcox, Laura ^q   Yoden, Shigeo ^r   Christiansen, Bo ^s   Lott, François ^t   Shindell, Drew ^u   Yukimoto, Seiji ^v   Watanabe, Shingo ^w   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^g NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

ⁱ MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^k MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^l KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m Department of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics Columbia University ^*  (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^o Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^p GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^q University of Birmingham   (United Kingdom)

^r KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^s DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^t ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^u NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^v METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^w JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; NORTHERN ANNULAR MODE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE COUPLING; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WARMING;

EID: 84876733097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50125     Document Type: Article

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