Decadal climate predictions with a coupled OAGCM initialized with oceanic reanalyses

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 1483-1497

  Bellucci, A ^a   Gualdi, S ^a,b   Masina, S ^a,b   Storto, A ^a   Scoccimarro, E ^b   Cagnazzo, C ^d   Fogli, P ^a   Manzini, E ^c   Navarra, A ^a,b  

^a CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate predictability; Decadal predictions; Decadal variability; Meridional overturning circulation; Ocean reanalyses

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECADAL VARIATION; FORECASTING METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HINDCASTING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84874328772     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1468-z     Document Type: Article

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