Interannual biases induced by freshwater flux and coupled feedback in the tropical Pacific

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1715-1737

  Zhang, Rong Hua ^a,b   Wang, Guihua ^a,b   Chen, Dake ^a,c   Busalacchi, A J ^b   Hackert, E C ^b  

^a Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Feedback; Fluxes; Freshwater; Interannual variability; Pacific Ocean; Tropics

Indexed keywords

BIAS; CLIMATE MODELING; COUPLED MODELS; EMPIRICAL MODEL; FEEDBACK EFFECTS; FRESHWATER; FRESHWATER FLUXES; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL SIMULATION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; PACIFIC OCEAN; REALISTIC SIMULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 77955577516     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3054.1     Document Type: Article

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