Southward intertropical convergence zone shifts and implications for an atmospheric bipolar seesaw

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4121-4137

  Cvijanovic, Ivana ^a,b   Langen, Peter L ^a,c   Kaas, Eigil ^a   Ditlevsen, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cloud forcing; Feedback; Hadley circulation; Hydrologic cycle; Paleoclimate; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FORCING; HADLEY CIRCULATION; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; PALEOCLIMATES; TELECONNECTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTS; FEEDBACK; WATER VAPOR;

TROPICS;

COOLING; HADLEY CELL; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NONLINEARITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE WIND; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WARMING; WATER VAPOR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84880283425     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00279.1     Document Type: Article

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