Strengthening of tropical Indian Ocean teleconnection to the northwest Pacific since the mid-1970s: An atmospheric GCM study

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 5294-5304

  Huang, Gang ^a   Hu, Kaiming ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-SYMMETRIC; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; HINDCASTS; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERDECADAL CHANGES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SOUTHWEST MONSOON; SUMMER WARMING; TELECONNECTIONS; TIO; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; WIND PATTERNS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; MONSOON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; TELECONNECTION; WIND FORCING;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 77958104735     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3577.1     Document Type: Article

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