What controls phase-locking of ENSO to boreal winter in coupled GCMs?

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 1551-1568

  Ham, Yoo Geun ^a,b   Kug, Jong Seong ^c   Kim, Daehyun ^d   Kim, Young Ho ^c   Kim, Dong Hoon ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^d Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^e Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CGCM; CMIP3; ENSO; Seasonal locking

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMOCLINE; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 84874325299     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1420-2     Document Type: Article

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