Indian Ocean zonal mode activity in a multicentury integration of a coupled AOGCM consistent with climate proxy data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2006, Pages

  Mölg, Thomas ^a   Renold, Manuel ^b   Vuille, Mathias ^c   Cullen, Nicolas J ^a   Stocker, Thomas F ^b,d   Kaser, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; LAKES; LOCKS (FASTENERS); SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIGHSTAND; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; INDIAN OCEAN; LAKE VICTORIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; COUPLED ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; MULTI-CENTURY INTEGRATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SEASONAL PHASE LOCKING; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS;

EID: 33845677392     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026384     Document Type: Article

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