The robustness of the atmospheric circulation and precipitation response to future anthropogenic surface warming

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2614-2622

  He, Jie ^a   Soden, Brian J ^a   Kirtman, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

AGCM; air sea interaction; atmospheric circulation; global warming; precipitation; SST pattern

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

AGCM; AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CIRCULATION CHANGES; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SST PATTERN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WAVE GENERATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84897272501     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059435     Document Type: Article

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