Coupled general circulation modeling of the tropical Pacific

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C7, 1998, Pages 14357-14373

  Delecluse, Pascale ^a   Davey, Michael K ^b   Kitamura, Yoshiteru ^c   Philander, S G H ^d   Suarez, Max ^e   Bengtsson, Lennart ^f  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GCM; TROPICS;

PACIFIC;

EID: 0032577946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jc02546     Document Type: Article

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