On the origin of equatorial Atlantic biases in coupled general circulation models

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 587-598

  Richter, Ingo ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; SURFACE WIND; THERMOCLINE; WESTERLY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 50449085097     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0364-z     Document Type: Article

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