An Energetic Perspective on the Tropical Atmosphere and its Response to Climate Warming

This thesis evaluates the dynamics of the tropical atmosphere and its response to warming using energetic approaches. We focus on three features of the atmosphere over tropical oceans: the response of precipitation to warming, the gross moist stability (GMS), and the response of the Pacific Walker c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duffy, Margaret Louise
Other Authors: O'Gorman, Paul
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/140166