Responses of the western North Pacific subtropical high to global warming under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios projected by 33 CMIP5 models: The dominance of tropical Indian Ocean-tropical western Pacific SST gradient

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 365-380

  He, Chao ^a,b,c   Zhou, Tianjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Anticyclones; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate change; General circulation models; Sea surface temperature; Subtropics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

ANTICYCLONES; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUBTROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84920265324     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00494.1     Document Type: Article

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