Diagnosis of the tropical Atlantic near-equatorial SST bias in a directly coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-4

  DeWitt, David G ^a  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WIND STRESS;

COUPLED ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (CDCM); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TELECONNECTION MECHANISMS; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; WIND STRESS;

EID: 16344382444     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021707     Document Type: Article

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