Realistic quasi-biennial oscillations in a simulation of the global climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 21, 2000, Pages 3481-3484

  Scaife, A A ^a   Butchart, N ^b   Warner, C D ^b   Stainforth, D ^b   Norton, W ^b   Austin, J ^b  

^a The Met Office ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

QUASIBIENNIAL OSCILLATION (QBO);

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 0034352509     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011625     Document Type: Article

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