Projected changes in African easterly wave intensity and track in response to greenhouse forcing

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 6882-6887

  Skinner, Christopher Bryan ^a   Diffenbaugh, Noah S ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

CMIP5; Greenhouse gas forcing

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AFRICAN EASTERLY WAVE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DROUGHT; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GREENHOUSE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WIND;

CMIP5; GREENHOUSE GAS FORCING;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WIND;

EID: 84900483929     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319597111     Document Type: Article

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