Indian Ocean variability in the GFDL coupled climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2895-2916

  Song, Qian ^a,b   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^b,c   Rosati, Anthony J ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UCAR Visiting Scientist Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED GLOBAL GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEAN VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; HEAT CONVECTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 34347250692     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4159.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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