Implications of both statistical equilibrium and global warming simulations with CCSM3. Part I: On the decadal variability in the North Pacific basin

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 5277-5297

  D'Orgeville, Marc ^a   Richard Peltier, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEUTIAN LOW; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BAROTROPIC CIRCULATION; BERING SEA; BERING STRAIT; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; CONTROL SIMULATION; DECADAL VARIABILITY; MODEL VARIABLES; NORTH PACIFIC; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SIGN REVERSAL; SNOW COVERAGE; STATISTICAL EQUILIBRIUM; THROUGHFLOW; TIME-SCALES; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; WESTERN PACIFIC; WIND STRESS CURL;

CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; MODEL STRUCTURES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; TIME MEASUREMENT; WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT FLUX; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; OCEAN BASIN; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE; WIND STRESS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; BERING STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 76649104731     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2428.1     Document Type: Article

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