Atmospheric annular modes in simulations over the past millennium: No long-term response to external forcing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3232-3236

  Gomez Navarro J J ^a   Zorita, E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

annular modes; external forcing; global circulation models; internal variability

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR MODES; ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; EXTERNAL FORCING; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; RESPONSE TO EXTERNAL FORCING;

FREQUENCY BANDS; METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; PALEOATMOSPHERE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84880516571     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50628     Document Type: Article

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