The decadal modulation of coupled bred vectors

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Ham, Yoo Geun ^a,b   Rienecker, Michele M ^a   Schubert, Siegfried ^a   Marshak, Jelena ^a   Yeh, Sang Wook ^c   Yang, Shu Chih ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERE OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; BACKGROUND TEMPERATURE; DECADAL CHANGE; EASTERN PACIFIC; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; OCEANIC TEMPERATURE; RESCALING; TEMPERATURE GROWTH;

MODULATION;

EID: 84868316795     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053719     Document Type: Article

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