Patterns of the seasonal response of tropical rainfall to global warming

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 357-361

  Huang, Ping ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^b,c,d   Hu, Kaiming ^a   Huang, Gang ^a   Huang, Ronghui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; CONVECTION; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICAL REGION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876838940     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1792     Document Type: Article

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