The modification of sea surface temperature anomaly linear damping time scales by stratocumulus clouds

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3619-3630

  Evan, Amato T ^a   Allen, Robert J ^b   Bennartz, Ralf ^c   Vimont, Daniel J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; NEWTONIAN COOLING; PERSISTENT FEATURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; DAMPING; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TROPICS;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOCUMULUS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84878975558     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00370.1     Document Type: Article

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