Assessment of the tropical Indo-Pacific climate in the SINTEX CGCM

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-26

  Gualdi, Silvio ^a   Navarra, Antonio ^a   Guilyardi, Eric ^b   Delecluse, Pascale ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Coupled models; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 2042461706     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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