Sensitivity of the atmospheric response to warm pool El Niño events to modeled SSTs and future climate forcings

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 13,371-13,382

  Hurwitz, Margaret M ^a,b   Garfinkel, Chaim I ^c,d   Newman, Paul A ^b   Oman, Luke D ^b  

^a MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

ENSO; stratosphere; teleconnections; warm pool El Ni o

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAKES; SEA ICE; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; ENSO; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SOUTH PACIFIC CONVERGENCE ZONES; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; TELECONNECTIONS; WARM POOLS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE DEPLETION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84892550879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021051     Document Type: Article

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