Contrasting the tropical responses to zonally asymmetric extratropical and tropical thermal forcing

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 2033-2043

  Kang, Sarah M ^a   Held, Isaac M ^b   Xie, Shang Ping ^c  

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

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AMOC; Zonal advection; Zonal homogenization

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COOLING; EDDY; EVAPORATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; HEATING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OVERTURN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TRADE WIND; WESTERLY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84893836708     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1863-0     Document Type: Article

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