Surface warming patterns drive tropical rainfall pattern responses to CO2 forcing on all timescales

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 610-615

  Chadwick, Robin ^a   Good, Peter ^a   Andrews, Timothy ^a   Martin, Gill ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change; rainfall; SST; tropics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SST; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION; TROPICAL RAINFALL;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE; WARMING;

EID: 84892655452     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058504     Document Type: Article

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