A comparison of decadal climate oscillations in the North Atlantic detected in observations and a coupled GCM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2920-2940

  Watanabe, Masahiro ^a   Kimoto, Masahide ^a   Nitta, Tsuyoshi ^a   Kachi, Misako ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EVAPORATION; HEAT FLUX; OSCILLATIONS; SURFACE WATERS; VELOCITY; WAVE TRANSMISSION; WIND;

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN INTERACTION; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DECADAL CLIMATE OSCILLATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DECADAL VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033190441     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<2920:ACODCO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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