Multi-model representation of the North Atlantic Oscillation in the 20th and 21st centuries

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 1-4

  McHugh, Maurice J ^a   Rogers, Jeffrey C ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CORRELATION METHODS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

AIR TEMPERATURE FIELDS; COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (CGCM); NORMALIZED ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERROR (NRMSE); NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION INDEX (NAOI); SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 29344472110     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023679     Document Type: Article

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