Future changes in extratropical storm tracks and baroclinicity under climate change

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Lehmann, Jascha ^a,b   Coumou, Dim ^a   Frieler, Katja ^a   Eliseev, Alexey V ^a,c,d   Levermann, Anders ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

baroclinicity; climate change; storm tracks

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BAROCLINICITY; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; EXTRATROPICAL STORMS; FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STORM TRACK;

STORMS;

EID: 84905714161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/8/084002     Document Type: Article

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