Tropical pacific climate and its response to global warming in the Kiel Climate Model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-92

  Park, Wonsun ^a   Keenlyside, N ^a   Latif, M ^a   Stroh A ^a   Redler, R ^b   Roeckner, E ^c   Madec, G ^d  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; GLOBAL WARMING; INTEGRATION; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SEAWATER; STATE FEEDBACK; STREAM FLOW; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; TROPICS;

ANNUAL CYCLES; CLIMATE DRIFTS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATE PREDICTABILITIES; CONTROL INTEGRATIONS; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; FINITE PROBABILITIES; FIRST ORDERS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS; GREENHOUSE WARMING; INTER ANNUALS; INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; MEAN STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS; SST ANOMALIES; TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATE CONTROL;

ANNUAL CYCLE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 60749122327     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2261.1     Document Type: Article

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