Causes of decadal climate variability over the North Pacific and North America

Science

Volumn 266, Issue 5185, 1994, Pages 634-637

  Latif, M ^a   Barnett, T P ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OCEAN ATMOSPHERE MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL SCALE; DECADAL VARIABILITY; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH AMERICA, PACIFIC, (NORTH); PACIFIC;

EID: 0028519405     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.266.5185.634     Document Type: Article

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26. We thank D. Cayan and W. White for many fruitful discussions; N. Schneider and D. Pierce for providing suggestions on an earlier version of the manuscript; and T. Stockdale, J. Wolff, and E. Maier-Reimer for helping to develop the coupled model; we also thank the Theoretical Applications Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for making most of the computer time available for these runs; D. Poling for tending these runs and managing the extensive output files; and C. Keller for facilitating the cooperation on this project. In addition, we thank M. Junge, J. Ritchie, T. Tubbs, and M. Tyree for providing computational assistance. Supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant NSFATM 9314495, the U.S. Department of Energy's CHAMP program under grant DE-FG03-91-ER61215 (T.P.B.), the German Climate Computer Center (DKRZ), and the European Community under grant EV5V-CT92-0121 (M.L.).