Tropical variability and stratospheric equatorial waves in the IPSLCM5 model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 2331-2344

  Maury, Pauline ^a   Lott, François ^a   Guez, Lionel ^a   Duvel, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Convectively coupled equatorial waves; El Ni o Southern oscillation; Intra Seasonal oscillations; Quasi Biennial oscillation; Stratosphere; Stratospheric equatorial waves; Tropical variability

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84876869525     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1273-0     Document Type: Article

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