Local coupled equatorial variability versus remote ENSO forcing in an intermediate coupled model of the tropical Atlantic

Journal of Climate

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 5227-5252

  Illig, Serena ^a   Dewitte, Boris ^a  

^a LEGOS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND;

EL NIÑO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INTERMEDIATE COUPLED MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 33745690645     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3922.1     Document Type: Article

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