A pacific centennial oscillation predicted by coupled GCMs

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 5943-5961

  Karnauskas, Kristopher B ^a   Smerdon, Jason E ^b   Seager, Richard ^b   González Rouco, Jesús Fidel ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate change; Climate variability; ENSO; Pacific Ocean; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC WAVES; CENTENNIAL VARIABILITY; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CONTROL INTEGRATION; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; ENSO; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EXTERNAL FORCING; EXTRATROPICAL; EXTRATROPICS; INTERANNUAL; INTERNAL CLIMATE; INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; MODEL SIMULATION; NATURAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SIGNAL TO NOISE; THREE MODELS; TIME-SCALES; WESTERN PACIFIC WARM POOL;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SEA LEVEL; TIME MEASUREMENT; TROPICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84867671014     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00421.1     Document Type: Article

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