An ENSO stability analysis. Part II: Results from the twentieth and twenty-first century simulations of the CMIP3 models

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1609-1627

  Kim, Seon Tae ^a,b   Jin, Fei Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BJ index; CMIP3; ENSO stability; Global warming

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 79953650701     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0872-5     Document Type: Article

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