The tropical intraseasonal oscillation in a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 2973-2976

  Gualdi, Silvio ^a,b   Navarra, Antonio ^a,b   Fischer, Martin ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Ist Stud Metodologie Geofisiche A   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

COUPLED ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; INTERSEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATE CHANGE; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEASONALITY;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; COUPLED MODELING; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN ATMOSPHERE GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; PROPAGATING DISTURBANCES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION;

EID: 0033208557     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010414     Document Type: Article

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