The effect of greenhouse gas-induced changes in SST on the annual cycle of zonal mean tropical precipitation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4544-4565

  Dwyer, John G ^a   Biasutti, Michela ^b   Sobel, Adam H ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Tropics, Monsoons, Precipitation, Climate change, Coupled models, Seasonal cycle

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; TROPICS;

COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; COUPLED MODELS; COUPLED SIMULATION; DEGREE OF SIMILARITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; WATER VAPOR; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84902096338     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00216.1     Document Type: Article

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