Understanding the anthropogenically forced change of equatorial pacific trade winds in coupled climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 8510-8526

  Xiang, Baoqiang ^a,b,c   Wang, Bin ^c,d   Li, Juan ^c   Zhao, Ming ^a   Lee, June Yi ^e  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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

^e Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Atmospheric circulation; Climate models; Climate variability; Numerical analysis modeling; Tropical variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMMERCE; GREENHOUSE GASES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; WIND; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; TROPICAL VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; WALKER CIRCULATION; WARMING; WIND;

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

EID: 84909646222     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00115.1     Document Type: Article

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