Decadal predictability of tropical indo-pacific ocean temperature trends due to anthropogenic forcing in a coupled climate model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Solomon, Amy ^a,b   Newman, Matthew ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; LAKES;

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; DECADAL TIMESCALE; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; PACIFIC OCEAN; UPPER OCEAN; WARM POOLS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE; WARM POOL;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79251572708     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045978     Document Type: Article

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