Revisiting the relationship between jet position, forced response, and annular mode variability in the southern midlatitudes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2896-2903

  Simpson, Isla R ^a,b   Polvani, Lorenzo M ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

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

Author keywords

climate change; eddy mean flow feedbacks; midlatitude westerlies; model representation; Southern Annular Mode

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE FORCINGS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; FORCED RESPONSE; MIDLATITUDES; MODEL REPRESENTATION; MODELING BEHAVIOR; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; EDDY; JET FLOW; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WESTERLY;

EID: 84977987233     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL067989     Document Type: Article

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