On the stochastic forcing of modes of interannual Southern Ocean sea surface temperature variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 3074-3083

  Aiken, Christopher M ^a   England, Matthew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEA LEVEL;

SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STOCHASTIC FORCING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

OCEANIC REGIONS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 25444488734     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3453.1     Document Type: Article

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