Decadal oscillations in a simple coupled model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3309-3319

  Münnich, Matthias ^a   Latif, Mojib ^a   Venzke, Stephan ^a   Maier Reimer, Ernst ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WIND STRESS;

ROSSBY WAVES; SIMPLE COUPLED MODEL; VORTICITY EQUATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0032439084     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<3309:DOIASC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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