Simulation of the intraseasonal variability over the Eastern Pacific ITCZ in climate models

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 617-636

  Jiang, Xianan ^a,b   Waliser, Duane E ^b   Kim, Daehyun ^c   Zhao, Ming ^d   Sperber, Kenneth R ^e   Stern, William F ^d   Schubert, Siegfried D ^f   Zhang, Guang J ^g   Wang, Wanqiu ^d   Khairoutdinov, Marat ^h   Neale, Richard B ⁱ   Lee, Myong In ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^j Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

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Author keywords

Eastern Pacific warm pool; Intraseasonal variability; ITCZ

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUMULUS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; WARM POOL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84864383545     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1098-x     Document Type: Article

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