Quantitative assessment of the climate components driving the pacific decadal oscillation in climate models

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 431-445

  Park, Jae Heung ^a   An, Soon Il ^a   Yeh, Sang Wook ^b   Schneider, Niklas ^c  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84876422558     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0730-y     Document Type: Article

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