The Indian Ocean subtropical dipole mode simulated in the CMIP3 models

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1385-1399

  Kataoka, Takahito ^a   Tozuka, Tomoki ^a   Masumoto, Yukio ^b   Yamagata, Toshio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CMIP3 model; Indian Ocean subtropical dipole; Mixed layer thickness; Rainfall; Subtropical high

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 84865184982     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1271-2     Document Type: Article

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