Enhanced or Weakened Western North Pacific Subtropical High under Global Warming?

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  He, Chao ^a,b   Zhou, Tianjun ^b,c   Lin, Ailan ^a   Wu, Bo ^b   Gu, Dejun ^a   Li, Chunhui ^a   Zheng, Bin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES JCGCS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEIGHT; MODEL; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84948472095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep16771     Document Type: Article

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