The role of the annual-mean climate on seasonal and interannual variability of the tropical Pacific in a coupled GCM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 780-792

  Li, Tianming ^a,c   Hogan, Timothy F ^b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPICS; WIND;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) PHENOMENA; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM);

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0033102435     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<0780:trotam>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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