The global warming-induced South Asian high change and its uncertainty

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2259-2273

  Qu, Xia ^a,b,c   Huang, Gang ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic effects; Atmospheric circulation; Circulation dynamics; Climate change; Climate models; Models and modeling; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; METEOROLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CIRCULATION CHANGES; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; NORTHERN INDIAN OCEANS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; METEOROLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84962319842     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0638.1     Document Type: Article

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