Can a regional ocean-atmosphere coupled model improve the simulation of the interannual variability of the western North Pacific summer monsoon?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2353-2367

  Zou, Liwei ^a   Zhou, Tianjun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE COUPLED MODEL; POSITIVE RAINFALL ANOMALIES; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC SUMMER MONSOONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOPHYSICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; SEA ICE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84876093350     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00722.1     Document Type: Article

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