A link between the hiatus in global warming and North American drought

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3834-3845

  Delworth, Thomas L ^a   Zeng, Fanrong ^a   Rosati, Anthony ^b   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic effects; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Drought; Pacific decadal oscillation; Teleconnections; Wind stress

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; WIND; WIND STRESS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION ANOMALY; CLIMATOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; TELECONNECTIONS;

DROUGHT;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; GLOBAL WARMING; HIATUS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; TELECONNECTION; WIND STRESS;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84928703190     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00616.1     Document Type: Article

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