Consistency of 20th century sea level pressure trends as simulated by a coupled and uncoupled GCM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3276-3280

  Colfescu, Ioana ^a   Schneider, Edwin K ^a,b   Chen, Hua ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

20th century sea level pressure trends; 20th century trends; air sea interactions; climate variability; coupled models of the climate system; external forcing

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EXTERNAL FORCING; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

ATMOSPHERICS; SEA LEVEL;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84880532715     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50545     Document Type: Article

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