Climate Dynamics

← Back to Domain-Specific Abstractions by Domain

2 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Climate Dynamics.

• Fixed anvil temperature hypothesis — A tropical-climate hypothesis that deep convective anvil-cloud tops emit at nearly fixed temperature as surface climate changes because clear-sky radiative cooling collapses at a characteristic upper-tropospheric temperature.
• Indian Ocean Dipole — A seasonally locked, coupled tropical Indian Ocean mode in which an east–west sea-surface-temperature contrast interacts with equatorial winds, convection, thermocline depth, and upwelling to produce positive and negative phases with regional rainfall consequences.