Looking for the role of the ocean in tropical Atlantic decadal climate variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 638-655

  Seager, R ^a   Kushnir, Y ^a   Chang, P ^a   Naik, N ^a   Miller, J ^a   Hazeleger, W ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND;

ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE FLUX;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035284376     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<0638:LFTROT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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