Northern winter climate change: Assessment of uncertainty in CMIP5 projections related to stratosphere-troposphere coupling

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 7979-7998

  Manzini, E ^a   Karpechko, A Yu ^b   Anstey, J ^c   Baldwin, M P ^d   Black, R X ^e   Cagnazzo, C ^f   Calvo, N ^g   Charlton Perez, A ^h   Christiansen, B ⁱ   Davini, Paolo ^f   Gerber, E ^j   Giorgetta, M ^a   Gray, L ^c   Hardiman, S C ^k   Lee, Y Y ^l   Marsh, D R ^m   McDaniel, B A ⁿ   Purich, A ^o   Scaife, A A ^k   Shindell, D ^p   Son, S W ^q   Watanabe, S ^r   Zappa, G ^h   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f CNR   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^j NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁿ KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o CSIRO   (Australia)

^p NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^q Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^r JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; FUTURE PROSPECT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; WINTER;

EID: 84921332140     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021403     Document Type: Article

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