Climate regime variability for past and present time slices simulated by the fast ocean atmosphere model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-70

  Handorf, Dörthe ^a   Dethloff, Klaus ^a   Marshall, Andrew G ^b   Lynch, Amanda ^c  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATE REGIMES; CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; DIFFERENT BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; FORCINGS; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUMS; LOW FREQUENCIES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; PAST AND PRESENTS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; STATE SPACES; TIME SLICES;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 60749126599     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2258.1     Document Type: Article

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