Interannual and interdecadal variabilities in the Pacific in an MRI coupled GCM

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 667-683

  Yukimoto, S ^a   Endoh, M ^a   Kitamura, Y ^a   Kitoh, A ^a   Motoi, T ^a   Noda, A ^a   Tokioka, T ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; AIR/SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSO; GCM; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; OCEAN CIRCULATION; SST;

PACIFIC, (TROPICAL);

EID: 0030419492     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820050135     Document Type: Article

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