Externally forced and internal variability in ensemble climate simulations of the Maunder Minimum

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 4253-4270

  Yoshimori, Masakazu ^a,b   Stocker, Thomas F ^a   Raible, Christoph C ^a   Renold, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Center for Environmental Prediction   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VOLCANOES;

CLIMATE MODEL; CLIMATE SIMULATIONS; MAUNDER MINIMUM; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; MAUNDER MINIMUM; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION;

EID: 28244455821     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3537.1     Document Type: Article

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