Pacific subtropical cell variability in coupled climate model simulations of the late 19th-20th century

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 236-249

  Solomon, Amy ^a   Zhang, Dongxiao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATION; OCEAN CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUBTROPICAL CELLS (STCS);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; UPWELLING; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 33750626291     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2006.03.007     Document Type: Article

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