The spatiotemporal structure of twentieth-century climate variations in observations and reanalyses.Part II: Pacific pan-decadal variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2634-2650

  Chen, Junye ^a,b   Del Genio, Anthony D ^c   Carlson, Barbara E ^c   Bosilovich, Michael G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONDUCTIVE PLASTICS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GLOBAL WARMING; NANOFLUIDICS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SETTLING TANKS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ANTI PHASE; BIO-SYSTEMS; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CLIMATE REGIME SHIFT; CLIMATE VARIATIONS; DATA-SETS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EOF ANALYSIS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; INTER-DECADAL; LONG-TERM VARIABILITY; OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; R EGIME SHIFTS; RE-ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIAL PATTERNING; SUBTROPICAL REGIONS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TELECONNECTION; TELECONNECTIONS; TIME-SERIES; WAVE TRAINS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; PARAMETERIZATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 48749089936     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI2012.1     Document Type: Article

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