Mechanisms of forced tropical meridional energy flux change

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1725-1742

  Hill, Spencer A ^a   Ming, Yi ^b   Held, Isaac M ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic effects; Atmospheric circulation; Energy transport; Hadley circulation; Mass fluxes transport; Meridional overturning circulation

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CELLS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; CYTOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GREENHOUSE GASES; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ENERGY TRANSPORT; HADLEY CIRCULATION; MASS FLUXES/TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AEROSOL; ANOMALY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ENERGY FLUX; HADLEY CELL; MASS TRANSPORT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84926059668     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00165.1     Document Type: Article

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