Impacts of the ocean lateral diffusion on the El Niño/Southern Oscillation-like variability of a global coupled General Circulation Model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2000, Pages 3041-3044

  Raynaud, S ^a,b   Speich, S ^b   Guilyardi, E ^b   Madec, G ^c  

^a Centre Bretagne   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DIFFUSION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED SIMULATION; HORIZONTAL DIFFUSIONS; INDUCED VELOCITY; INVESTIGATE EFFECTS; LATERAL DIFFUSION; MULTICHANNEL SINGULAR SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; EDDY INDUCED VELOCITY; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEAN LATERAL DIFFUSION;

OCEANOGRAPHY; CLIMATOLOGY;

COUPLING; DIFFUSION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

EID: 0033625901     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011323     Document Type: Article

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