Connections between the Pacific Ocean Tropics and midlatitudes on decadal timescales

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1173-1194

  Pierce, David W ^a   Barnett, Tim P ^a   Latif, Mojib ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPICS; WATER WAVES; WIND;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; KELVIN WAVE PROPAGATION; OCEANIC ADVECTION; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033924429     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<1173:CBTPOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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