Final warming of the Southern Hemisphere polar vortex in high- and low-top CMIP5 models

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2535-2546

  Wilcox, L J ^a   Charlton Perez, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; OZONE LAYER; VORTEX FLOW;

COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; ENSEMBLE EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITIONS (EEMD); GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; MODEL REPRESENTATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE; SURFACE CLIMATE; TROPOSPHERIC VARIABILITY;

ATMOSPHERICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GREENHOUSE GAS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; POLAR VORTEX; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WARMING;

EID: 84882252740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50254     Document Type: Article

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