How well do current climate models simulate two types of El Nino?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 383-398

  Ham, Yoo Geun ^a,b   Kug, Jong Seong ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Climate model; ENSO; Two types of El Nino

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84862222911     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1157-3     Document Type: Article

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