Climatic impacts of stochastic fluctuations in air-sea fluxes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Williams, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AIR SEA FLUX; BUOYANCY FLUXES; CLIMATE SIMULATION; CLIMATIC IMPACT; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HADLEY CIRCULATION; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA SURFACES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STOCHASTIC FLUCTUATION; SUB-GRID VARIABILITY; WATER FLUX;

SEAWATER;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HADLEY CELL; MIXED LAYER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STOCHASTICITY; BUOYANCY;

EID: 84861710326     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051813     Document Type: Article

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