The roles of radiative forcing, sea surface temperatures, and atmospheric and land initial conditions in U.S. summer warming episodes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 4121-4135

  Jia, Liwei ^a,b   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^b   Yang, Xiaosong ^b,c   Gudgel, Richard G ^b   Delworth, Thomas L ^b   Stern, William F ^b   Paffendorf, Karen ^b   Underwood, Seth D ^d   Zeng, Fanrong ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Engility Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean structure Phenomena; Circulation Dynamics; Climate models; Dynamics; Extreme events; Forecasting; Models and modeling; Physical meteorology and climatology; Seasonal forecasting; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; DYNAMICS; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; DIRECT RADIATIVE FORCING; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; EXTREME EVENTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL FORECASTING; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; EXTREME EVENT; FORECASTING METHOD; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; WARMING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84971472959     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0471.1     Document Type: Article

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