Recent Hadley cell expansion: The role of internal atmospheric variability in reconciling modeled and observed trends

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 10824-10831

  Garfinkel, Chaim I ^a   Waugh, Darryn W ^b   Polvani, Lorenzo M ^c,d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

^d Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

chemistry climate interactions; climate change; Hadley Cell

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; EXPANSION; GREENHOUSE GASES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE INTERACTION; CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HADLEY CELLS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OZONE DEPLETING SUBSTANCES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HADLEY CELL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE DEPLETION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84955213418     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066942     Document Type: Article

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