Relative roles of differential SST warming, uniform SST warming and land surface warming in determining the Walker circulation changes under global warming

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 48, Issue 3-4, 2017, Pages 987-997

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Li, Tim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Global warming; The Walker circulation; Uniform SST warming and extra land warming

Indexed keywords

CMIP; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND SURFACE; MONSOON; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRADE WIND; WALKER CIRCULATION; WARMING; WESTERLY;

EID: 84964350243     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3123-6     Document Type: Article

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