Improved simulation of two types of El Niño in CMIP5 models

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Kug, Jong Seong ^a   Ham, Yoo Geun ^b,c   Lee, June Yi ^d   Jin, Fei Fei ^d  

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

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

CMIP3; CMIP5; two types of El Ni o events; warm pool El Ni o

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864402369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034002     Document Type: Article

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