Responses of the summertime subtropical anticyclones to global warming

Journal of Climate

Volumn 30, Issue 16, 2017, Pages 6465-6479

  He, Chao ^a,b,c   Wu, Bo ^b   Zou, Liwei ^b   Zhou, Tianjun ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Anticyclones; Climate change; Subtropics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HEATING; NASA; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE;

ANTICYCLONES; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS; SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN; SUBTROPICAL ANTICYCLONE; SUBTROPICAL OCEAN; SUBTROPICS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

TROPICS;

ANTICYCLONE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CMIP; DIABATIC PROCESS; GLOBAL WARMING; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 85025699867     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0529.1     Document Type: Article

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