Impact of atmosphere and sub-Surface ocean data on decadal climate prediction

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Dunstone, N J ^a   Smith, D M ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OCEAN; SUB-SURFACE OCEAN; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955382014     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041609     Document Type: Article

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