Robust increase of the equatorial Pacific rainfall and its variability in a warmed climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3227-3232

  Watanabe, Masahiro ^a   Kamae, Youichi ^b   Kimoto, Masahide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

climate change; CMIP5 models; precipitation; tropical Pacific

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AMPLITUDE CHANGES; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MEAN SEA SURFACES; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL PACIFIC;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84901934155     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059692     Document Type: Article

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