Increased El Nino frequency in a climate model forced by future greenhouse warming

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6729, 1999, Pages 694-697

  Timmermann, A ^a   Oberhuber, J ^b   Bacher, A ^a   Esch, M ^a   Latif, M ^a   Roeckner, E ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE WARMING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS;

GLOBAL WARMING;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033594511     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19505     Document Type: Article

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