Tropical precipitation regimes and mechanisms of regime transitions: Contrasting two aquaplanet general circulation models

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 2345-2358

  Oueslati, Boutheina ^a   Bellon, Gilles ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dynamics and feedbacks; Double ITCZ; Tropical precipitation regimes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; COOLING; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 84876816813     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1344-x     Document Type: Article

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