Rossby wave dynamics of the North Pacific extra-tropical response to El Niño: Importance of the basic state in coupled GCMs

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 391-405

  Dawson, Andrew ^a   Matthews, Adrian J ^a   Stevens, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basic state; El Ni o; Extra tropical SST; GCM; North Pacific; Rossby wave dynamics

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79959775474     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0854-7     Document Type: Article

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