Origins of tropical-wide SST biases in CMIP multi-model ensembles

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Li, Gen ^a,b,c   Xie, Shang Ping ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; ERRORS; STREAM FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; CLOUD COVER; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SIMULATION ERROR; THERMOCLINE DEPTH; TROPICAL OCEAN;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; THRESHOLD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84870602021     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053777     Document Type: Article

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