Indian Ocean Variability in the CMIP5 Multimodel Ensemble: The Basin Mode

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 7240-7266

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

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS WINDS; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; MULTIDECADAL VARIATIONS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN; WIND ANOMALIES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS; NICKEL;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KELVIN WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE; THERMOCLINE; TROPOSPHERE; WIND FIELD;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTH); INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 84881636314     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00678.1     Document Type: Article

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