Highly significant responses to anthropogenic forcings of the midlatitude jet in the Southern Hemisphere

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 3463-3470

  Solomon, Abraham ^a   Polvani, L M ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Annular mode; Atm ocean structure phenomena; Atmospheric circulation; Circulation dynamics; Climate variability; Jets; Variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; JETS; METEOROLOGY;

ANNULAR MODE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FULLY-COUPLED MODEL; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VARIABILITY;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; JET; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 84966393697     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0034.1     Document Type: Article

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