Realism of local and remote feedbacks on tropical sea surface temperatures in climate models

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Shin, Sang Ik ^a,b   Sardeshmukh, Prashant D ^a   Pegion, Kathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COVARIANCE MATRIX; FEEDBACK; LAKES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME SERIES; TROPICS;

20TH CENTURY; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE RESEARCH; DATA SETS; EASTERN PACIFIC; FEEDBACK MATRICES; LINEAR INVERSE MODELS; OCEANIC WAVES; PACIFIC WARM POOL REGIONS; REMOTE INTERACTIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL OCEAN;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OCEAN WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WARM POOL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 78249271761     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD013927     Document Type: Article

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