Development of warm SST errors in the southern tropical Atlantic in CMIP5 decadal hindcasts

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2889-2913

  Toniazzo, Thomas ^a   Woolnough, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coastal upwelling systems; General circulation models; Model systematic biases; Ocean atmosphere coupling; Seasonal and decadal prediction; Tropical Atlantic; Tropical circulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874179266     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1691-2     Document Type: Article

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