The cold ocean-warm land pattern: Model simulation and relevance to climate change detection

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2743-2763

  Broccoli, Anthony J ^a   Lau, Ngar Cheung ^a   Nath, Mary Jo ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE DETECTION; COLD OCEAN-WARM LAND MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 0032215959     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<2743:TCOWLP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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