Hadley cell widening: Model simulations versus observations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2713-2725

  Johanson, Celeste M ^a   Fu, Qiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; GLOBAL WARMING;

FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HISTORICAL CHANGES; HISTORICAL SIMULATION; MODEL SIMULATION; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; RAINFALL PATTERNS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84878135047     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2620.1     Document Type: Article

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