Robust GEFA assessment of climate feedback to SST EOF modes

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 907-912

  Fan, Lei ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^b,c   Liu, Qinyu ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

assessment; climate; EOF; feedback; generalized equilibrium feedback analysis (GEFA); SST

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959484380     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-010-0081-5     Document Type: Article

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