Natural climate variability and teleconnections to precipitation over the Pacific-North American region in CMIP3 and CMIP5 models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2296-2301

  Polade, Suraj D ^a   Gershunov, Alexander ^a   Cayan, Daniel R ^a   Dettinger, Michael D ^a,b   Pierce, David W ^a  

^a San Diego   (United States)

^b United States Geological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

CMIP5; ENSO; natural climate variability; North American hydroclimate; PDO; southwest USA hydroclimate

Indexed keywords

CMIP5; ENSO; NATURAL CLIMATE VARIABILITIES; NORTH AMERICAN; PDO; SOUTHWEST USA;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION;

PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84879920828     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50491     Document Type: Article

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