Climate impacts of recent multidecadal changes in Atlantic Ocean Sea Surface Temperature: A multimodel comparison

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1041-1058

  Hodson, Daniel L R ^a   Sutton, Rowan T ^a   Cassou, Christophe ^b   Keenlyside, Noel ^c   Okumura, Yuko ^d   Zhou, Tianjun ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CERFACS   (France)

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

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Atlantic; Decadal; MOC

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE FORCING; DECADAL VARIATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MODELING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 77952876578     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0571-2     Document Type: Article

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