Modes of climate variability as simulated by a coupled general circulation model. Part I: ENSO-like climate variability and its low-frequency modulation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 605-618

  Timmermann, A ^a   Latif, M ^b   Grotzner A ^b   Voss, R ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; KELVIN WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE;

EID: 0032694933     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820050304     Document Type: Article

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