Successive modulation of ENSO to the future greenhouse warming

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-21

  An, Soon Il ^a   Kug, Jong Seong ^b   Ham, Yoo Geun ^b   Kang, In Sik ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DROUGHT; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; EL NIÑO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GREENHOUSE WARMING;

GLOBAL WARMING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; EIGENVALUE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIMESCALE; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 40849147480     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1500.1     Document Type: Article

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