Origins of the midlatitude Pacific decadal variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1453-1456

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

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; OCEAN CURRENTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RANDOM PROCESSES; WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CLIMATE SIMULATION; DECADAL VARIABILITY; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; OCEAN RESPONSE; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; PACIFIC DECADAL VARIABILITIES; RANDOM VARIATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE;

OCEAN DYNAMICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; OSCILLATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033562309     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900278     Document Type: Article

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