Decadal and centennial variability of the southern semiannual oscillation simulated in the GFDL coupled GCM

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-53

  Simmonds, I ^a   Walland, D J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN COUPLING; GCM; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATION;

EID: 0031982407     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820050207     Document Type: Article

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