The vertical structure of tropospheric water vapor: Comparing radiative and ocean-driven climate changes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 4251-4268

  Rose, Brian E J ^a   Rencurrel, M Cameron ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean structure Phenomena; Climate change; Climate models; Heat budgets fluxes; Models and modeling; Physical meteorology and climatology; Sea surface temperature; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; WATER VAPOR;

DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; HEAT BUDGETS/FLUXES; INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS; POLAR AMPLIFICATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TRANSIENT CLIMATE CHANGE; TROPICAL TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; NONLINEARITY; RADIATIVE FORCING; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84971408136     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0482.1     Document Type: Article

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