North Australian sea surface temperatures and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation in observations and models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 5011-5029

  Catto, Jennifer L ^a   Nicholls, Neville ^a   Jakob, Christian ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Climate models; ENSO; Model evaluation performance; Pacific Ocean; Tropical variabilty

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; ENSO; MODEL EVALUATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; TROPICAL VARIABILTY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEA ICE;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CYCLONE; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HADLEY CELL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84865140720     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00311.1     Document Type: Article

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