A method for disentangling El Niño-mean state interaction

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Watanabe, Masahiro ^a   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

CONTROL SIMULATION; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; ENSO CYCLE; FORCINGS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MEAN PRECIPITATION; MEAN SEA SURFACES; PRE-INDUSTRIAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84864491108     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052013     Document Type: Article

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