North australian sea surface temperatures and the El Niño-southern oscillation in the CMIP5 models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6375-6382

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

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate models; Climate variability; ENSO; Interannual variability

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; ENSO; IN-PHASE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MULTI-MODEL; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SST ANOMALIES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84867668090     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00214.1     Document Type: Article

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