Southward shift of the northern tropical belt from 1945 to 1980

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 969-974

  Bronnimann, Stefan ^a   Fischer, Andreas M ^b   Rozanov, Eugene ^c,d   Poli, Paul ^e   Compo, Gilbert P ^f,g   Sardeshmukh, Prashant D ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^c WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

^d Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^e EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; HADLEY CELL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE;

EID: 84948440559     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2568     Document Type: Article

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