Enhancement of ENSO's persistence barrier by biennial variability in a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Yu, Jin Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

COUPLED ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONSOON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPRING (SEASON); TELECONNECTION;

EID: 24944557010     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023406     Document Type: Article

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