Contribution of ocean overturning circulation to tropical rainfall peak in the Northern Hemisphere

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 940-944

  Frierson, Dargan M W ^a   Hwang, Yen Ting ^a   Fučkar, Neven S ^b,c   Seager, Richard ^d   Kang, Sarah M ^e   Donohoe, Aaron ^f   Maroon, Elizabeth A ^a   Liu, Xiaojuan ^a   Battisti, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Unitat de Dinàmica I Impacte Climàtic UDIC Institut Català de Ciències del Clima   (Spain)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY BUDGET; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLUX; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OVERTURN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOCIAL IMPACT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84887053995     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1987     Document Type: Article

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