Interdecadal interactions between the tropics and midlatitudes in the Pacific basin

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 615-618

  Barnett, Tim P ^a   Pierce, David W ^a   Latif, Mojib ^b   Dommenget, Dietmar ^b   Saravanan, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TROPICS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERDECADAL INTERACTIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; TELECONNECTION;

EQUATORIAL REGIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; INTERDECADAL; LOW-FREQUENCY; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN PROCESS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTIONS;

EID: 0033105005     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900042     Document Type: Article

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