How fast are the tropics expanding?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1999-2013

  Quan, Xiao Wei ^a   Hoerling, Martin P ^b   Perlwitz, Judith ^a   Diaz, Henry F ^a   Xu, Taiyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION; INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

TROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE DEPLETION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; WINTER; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84897613883     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00287.1     Document Type: Article

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