The expanding tropics: A critical assessment of the observational and modeling studies

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 89-112

  Lucas, Christopher ^a   Timbal, Bertrand ^a   Nguyen, Hanh ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; OZONE LAYER;

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PRECISE DETERMINATIONS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION; TROPICAL-EXTRATROPICAL INTERACTIONS;

TROPICS;

AEROSOL; CLIMATE FORCING; GREENHOUSE GAS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE DEPLETION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84890350523     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.251     Document Type: Review

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