Causes of low frequency North Atlantic SST variability in a coupled GCM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Wu, Zhaohua ^a   Schneider, E K ^a,b   Kirtman, B P ^a,b  

^a Ctr Ocean Land Atmosphere Studs   (United States)

^b Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY FORCING; INTERACTIVE ENSEMBLE TECHNIQUES; SST VARIABILITY;

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 3543136609     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019548     Document Type: Article

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