El-Nino Southern Oscillation simulated and predicted in SNU coupled GCMs

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 2227-2242

  Ham, Yoo Geun ^a   Kang, In Sik ^b   Kim, Daehyun ^c   Kug, Jong Seong ^d  

^a UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLOUD WATER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HINDCASTING; RAINDROP; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84861800955     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1171-5     Document Type: Article

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