A simple analytical model for understanding the formation of sea surface temperature patterns under global warming

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 8413-8421

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Li, Tim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLUX; NICKEL; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; FUTURE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUXES; THEORETICAL MODELING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO; GLOBAL WARMING; LATENT HEAT FLUX; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84909619231     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00346.1     Document Type: Article

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