Predictability of the Indian Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies in the GFDL coupled model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

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

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (CGCM); GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORY (GFDL); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 40849098603     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031966     Document Type: Article

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