Modeling El Niño and its tropical teleconnections during the last glacial-interglacial cycle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2003, Pages

  Otto Bliesner, Bette L ^a   Brady, Esther C ^a   Shin, Sang Ik ^b   Liu, Zhengyu ^b   Shields, Christine ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WIND STRESS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; NICKEL; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL (CSM); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SEA ICE MODELING; TROPICAL THERMOCLINE;

GEOPHYSICS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; EL NINO; GLACIATION; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY;

EID: 1542755952     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018553     Document Type: Article

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