Circulation response to warming shaped by radiative changes of clouds and water vapour

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 102-106

  Voigt, Aiko ^a   Shaw, Tiffany A ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SIMULATION; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84923262088     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2345     Document Type: Article

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