Indian ocean dipole response to global warming in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 6067-6080

  Zheng, Xiao Tong ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a,b,c   Du, Yan ^d   Liu, Lin ^e   Huang, Gang ^f   Liu, Qinyu ^a  

^a Key Laboratory of Ocean Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Ocean University of China ^*  (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FEEDBACKS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EASTERN EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLES; INTERMODEL VARIABILITY; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES;

STREAM FLOW;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; ZONAL WIND;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84876845931     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00638.1     Document Type: Article

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