Strengthening of the Walker circulation under globalwarming in an aqua-planet general circulation model simulation

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1473-1480

  Li, Tim ^a,b   Zhang, Lei ^a   Murakami, Hiroyuki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

aqua planet simulation; global warming; Walker circulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941339745     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-015-5033-7     Document Type: Article

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