Positive low cloud and dust feedbacks amplify tropical North Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1349-1356

  Yuan, Tianle ^a   Oreopoulos, Lazaros ^b   Zelinka, Mark ^c   Yu, Hongbin ^b,d   Norris, Joel R ^e   Chin, Mian ^b   Platnick, Steven ^b   Meyer, Kerry ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

AMO; climate model; cloud feedback; coupled dynamics; dust feedback

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DUST; FEEDBACK; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; WIND;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLOUD FEEDBACKS; COUPLED DYNAMICS; CRITICAL WIND SPEED; REALISTIC SIMULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLOUD; COUPLING; DUST; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRADE WIND; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84959387760     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL067679     Document Type: Article

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