The robustness of future changes in Northern Hemisphere blocking: A large ensemble projection with multiple sea surface temperature patterns

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 5158-5166

  Matsueda, Mio ^a,b   Endo, Hirokazu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

atmospheric blocking; high resolution climate model; SST ensemble simulation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; HIGH RESOLUTION CLIMATE MODEL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PACIFIC SECTOR; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); STATE OF THE ART;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MAGNITUDE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RESOLUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 85020024164     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL073336     Document Type: Article

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