Midlatitude cloud shifts, their primary link to the Hadley cell, and their diverse radiative effects

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 4594-4601

  Tselioudis, George ^a,b   Lipat, Bernard R ^b   Konsta, Dimitra ^c   Grise, Kevin M ^d   Polvani, Lorenzo M ^b,e,f  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

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

^c NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

climate; clouds; dynamics; radiation

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CLOUDS; DYNAMICS; HEAT RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE; MID-LATITUDE CLOUDS; POLEWARD SHIFT; RADIATIVE COOLING; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; RADIATIVE WARMING; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

CYTOLOGY;

CLOUD COVER; COOLING; HADLEY CELL; JET; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84992311455     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068242     Document Type: Article

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