Abstract
Predictions of future climate change raise a variety of issues in large-scale atmospheric and oceanic dynamics. Several of these are reviewed in this essay, including the sensitivty of the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean to increasing freshwater input at high latitudes; the possibility of greenhouse cooling in the southern oceans; the sensitivity of monsoonal circulations to differential warming of the two hemispheres; the response of midlatitude storms to changing temperature gradients and increasing water vapor in the atmosphere; and the possible importance of positive feedback between the mean winds and eddy-induced heating in the polar stratosphere. -Author
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 228-241 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Bulletin - American Meteorological Society |
Volume | 74 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1993 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Atmospheric Science