ENSO feedbacks and associated time scales of variability in a multimodel ensemble

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3181-3204

  Belmadani, Ali ^a   Dewitte, Boris ^a   An, Soon Il ^b  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ,; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EASTERN PACIFIC; ENSO CYCLE; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; FEEDBACK PROCESS; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; OCEAN MODEL; PACIFIC OCEAN; RECHARGE OSCILLATOR; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; RELATIVE WEIGHTS; SURFACE CIRCULATION; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL ADVECTION; WESTERN PACIFIC;

ADVECTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; STATE FEEDBACK; WIND EFFECTS;

FEEDBACK;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 77955477742     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI2830.1     Document Type: Article

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