South Pacific origin of the decadal ENSO-like variation as simulated by a coupled GCM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 2003, Pages

  Luo, Jing Jia ^a   Masson, Sebastien ^a   Behera, Swadhin ^a   Delecluse, Pascale ^b   Gualdi, Silvio ^c   Navarra, Antonio ^c   Yamagata, Toshio ^d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Lab Oceanographie Dynam/Climatol   (France)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; GLOBAL WARMING; STORMS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TROPICS;

ANTICYCLONES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

EID: 1642633368     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018649     Document Type: Article

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