Future change in the frequency and intensity of wintertime North Pacific blocking in CMIP5 models

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2765-2781

  Lee, Doo Young ^a   Ahn, Joong Bae ^b  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

blocking frequency; blocking intensity; CMIP5; Global warming; Pacific blocking; RCP

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING PROBABILITY; GLOBAL WARMING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

BLOCKING FREQUENCY; BLOCKING INTENSITY; CMIP5; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; HISTORICAL SIMULATION; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; PACIFIC BLOCKING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CMIP; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84988632729     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4878     Document Type: Article

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