The role of the intra-daily SST variability in the Indian monsoon variability and monsoon-ENSO-IOD relationships in a global coupled model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 729-754

  Terray, Pascal ^a   Kamala, Kakitha ^a   Masson, Sébastien ^a   Madec, Gurvan ^a   Sahai, A K ^b   Luo, Jing Jia ^c   Yamagata, Toshio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^c Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coupled climate model; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Indian summer monsoon; Intra daily SST variability; Ocean atmosphere interactions

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-HYDROSPHERE INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIURNAL VARIATION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONSOON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84864391095     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1240-9     Document Type: Article

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