Decadal North Pacific sea surface temperature variability and the associated global climate anomalies in a coupled general circulation model

Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres

Volumn 109, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Yeh, Sang Wook ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^a,b  

^a Ctr Ocean Land Atmosphere Studs   (United States)

^b George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

Decadal North Pacific SST variability; Global climate variations; Midlatitude response

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); WORLD;

EID: 11844258199     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JD004785     Document Type: Article

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