Local versus non-local atmospheric weather noise and the North Pacific SST variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Yeh, Sang Wook ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^b,c   An, Soon Il ^d  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^d Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR-SEA INTERFACE; ATMOSPHERIC WEATHER NOISE; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MDEL (CGCM); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34548577199     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030206     Document Type: Article

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