How well do atmospheric general circulation models capture the leading modes of the interannual variability of the Asian-Australian monsoon?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1159-1173

  Zhou, Tianjun ^a   Wu, Bo ^a   Wang, Bin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA COUPLINGS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT-II; DEGREE OF ACCURACIES; EXTRATROPICAL; FORCED SIMULATIONS; IN-PHASE; INTER ANNUALS; INTER COMPARISONS; INTER-ANNUAL VARIABILITIES; LOW-FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; MONSOON RAINFALLS; MULTI MODELS; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLES; OCEAN ATMOSPHERES; RAINFALL VARIABILITIES; RE-ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL RAINFALLS; SOUTH CHINA SEAS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MONSOON; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 64049085984     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2245.1     Document Type: Article

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