Decadal climate variability in a coupled atmosphere-ocean climate model of moderate complexity

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 104, Issue D22, 1999, Pages 27253-27275

  Handorf, Dörthe ^a   Petoukhov, Vladimir K ^b   Dethloff, Klaus ^a   Eliseev, Alexey V ^b   Weisheimer, Antje ^a   Mokhov, Igor I ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033610975     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999JD900836     Document Type: Article

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