Response of tropical Pacific interannual variability to decadal entrainment temperature change in a hybrid coupled model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Rong Hua ^a   DeWitt, David G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Earth Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEAN STRUCTURES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HYBRID COUPLED MODEL; INTERMEDIATE OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN THERMAL STRUCTURE;

METEOROLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE FORCING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 33745473099     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025286     Document Type: Article

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