Amplification of El Nino by cloud longwave coupling to atmospheric circulation

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 106-110

  Radel, Gaby ^a   Mauritsen, Thorsten ^a   Stevens, Bjorn ^a   Dommenget, Dietmar ^b   Matei, Daniela ^a   Bellomo, Katinka ^c   Clement, Amy ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND STRESS; ZONAL WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84957072704     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2630     Document Type: Article

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