Rainfall teleconnections with indo-pacific variability in the WCRP CMIP3 models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 5046-5071

  Cai, Wenju ^a   Sullivan, Arnold ^a   Cowan, Tim ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRAL SUMMERS; BJERKNES FEEDBACK; BOREAL WINTERS; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CLIMATE MODEL; CLIMATE RESEARCH; CONVERGENCE ZONES; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; ENSO SIGNAL; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLES; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SST ANOMALIES; STOCHASTIC NOISE; TELECONNECTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76649106088     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2694.1     Document Type: Article

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