Robust future changes in temperature variability under greenhouse gas forcing and the relationship with thermal advection

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2221-2236

  Holmes, Caroline R ^a   Woollings, Tim ^b   Hawkins, Ed ^c   de Vries, Hylke ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Advection; Climate change; Ensembles; Interannual variability; Intraseasonal variability; Models and modeling; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Surface temperature; Variability

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TROPICS;

ENSEMBLES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADVECTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GREENHOUSE GAS; METEOROLOGY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84962241820     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00735.1     Document Type: Article

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