Expansion of the Southern Hemisphere hadley cell in response to greenhouse gas forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 8067-8077

  Nguyen, H ^a   Lucas, C ^a   Evans, A ^a   Timbal, B ^a   Hanson, L ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Circulation Dynamics; Coupled models; Models and modeling; Reanalysis data; Trends; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947591868     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0139.1     Document Type: Article

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