Estimating the observed atmospheric response to SST anomalies: Maximum covariance analysis, generalized equilibrium feedback assessment, and maximum response estimation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2523-2539

  Frankignoul, Claude ^a   Chouaib, Nadine ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interaction; Anomalies; Seas surface temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ANOMALIES; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; BOUNDARY FORCING; GENERALIZED EQUILIBRIUMS; MAXIMUM COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHOD; NORTH ATLANTIC; SEAS SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST ANOMALIES; SYNTHETIC DATA; TIME LAG;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTIMATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79958088359     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3696.1     Document Type: Article

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