Biases in the atlantic ITCZ in seasonal-interannual variations for a coarse- and a high-resolution coupled climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 5494-5511

  Doi, Takeshi ^a,b   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^b   Rosati, Anthony J ^b   Delworth, Thomas L ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; ANNUAL MEAN; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED PROCESS; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; FULLY-COUPLED; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERANNUAL; MERIDIONAL MIGRATION; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTH AMERICA; SST ANOMALIES; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

CLIMATE CHANGE; RAIN;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84865131293     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00360.1     Document Type: Article

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