Detecting cross-equatorial wind change as a fingerprint of climate response to anthropogenic aerosol forcing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 3444-3450

  Wang, Hai ^a,b   Xie, Shang Ping ^a,b   Tokinaga, Hiroki ^c   Liu, Qinyu ^a   Kosaka, Yu ^d  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

aerosol fingerprint; climate change; cross equatorial surface wind; interhemispheric asymmetry

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

AEROSOL EMISSIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; HADLEY CIRCULATION; INTERHEMISPHERIC ASYMMETRY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE WINDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84979492214     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068521     Document Type: Article

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