Multimodel estimates of atmospheric response to modes of SST variability and implications for droughts

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4327-4341

  Pegion, Philip J ^a,b   Kumar, Arun ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECTS; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; CLIMATE RESEARCH; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; GLOBAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LOADING; MULTI-MODEL; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE CLIMATE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WORKING GROUPS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; EXPERIMENTS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SNOW INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77958109587     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3295.1     Document Type: Article

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