A simple coupled model of tropical Atlantic decadal climate variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2002, Pages

  Kushnir, Yochanan ^a   Seager, Richard ^a   Miller, Jennifer ^a   Chiang, John C H ^b,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; EVAPORATION; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; WHITE NOISE;

DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIABILITY; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; REGIONAL VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); STATISTICAL REPRESENTATIONS; SURFACE WIND ANOMALIES; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036956068     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015874     Document Type: Article

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