Impact of including surface currents on simulation of Indian Ocean variability with the POAMA coupled model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1291-1302

  Zhao, Mei ^a   Wang, Guomin ^a   Hendon, Harry H ^a   Alves, Oscar ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OCEANIC CURRENT;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 79953655345     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0823-1     Document Type: Article

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