GFDL's CM2 global coupled climate models. Part III: Tropical Pacific climate and ENSO

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 698-722

  Wittenberg, Andrew T ^a   Rosati, Anthony ^a   Lau, Ngar Cheung ^a   Ploshay, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE-LAND-ICE MODELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATED MERIDIONAL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEAT FLUX; LABORATORY METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; ZONAL WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 33644612687     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3631.1     Document Type: Article

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