Direct and ozone-mediated forcing of the Southern Annular Mode by greenhouse gases

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 9050-9057

  Morgenstern, Olaf ^a   Zeng, Guang ^a   Dean, Sam M ^a   Joshi, Manoj ^b   Abraham, N Luke ^c   Osprey, Annette ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change; greenhouse gas; ozone; regression; southern annular mode; Southern Hemisphere

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GASES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GASES; OZONE; OZONE LAYER;

CLIMATE SIMULATION; OCEAN CHEMISTRY; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; REGRESSION; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION; SURFACE PRESSURES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; GREENHOUSE GAS; OZONE DEPLETION; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 84921811906     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062140     Document Type: Article

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