Vertical structure of warming consistent with an upward shift in the middle and upper troposphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1838-1842

  O'Gorman, Paul A ^a   Singh, Martin S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Radiosondes; Tropospheric warming; Upward shift

Indexed keywords

COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RADIOSONDE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TROPOSPHERIC WARMING; UPWARD SHIFT; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; RADIOSONDES;

TROPOSPHERE;

ADIABATIC LAPSE RATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RADIOSONDE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE; WARMING;

EID: 84879085980     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50328     Document Type: Article

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