The potential impact of changes in lower stratospheric water vapour on stratospheric temperatures over the past 30 years

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 684, 2014, Pages 2176-2185

  Maycock, A C ^a   Joshi, M M ^b   Shine, K P ^c   Davis, S M ^d,e   Rosenlof, K H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic dehydration; Climate modelling; Polar stratosphere; Stratosphere and climate; Temperature trends; Tropical stratosphere

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; OZONE LAYER; TROPICS; WATER VAPOR;

GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; LOWER STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; POLAR STRATOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE TRENDS; TROPICAL STRATOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 84922934784     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2287     Document Type: Article

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