Evaluation of El Niño-Southern Oscillation in the ACCESS coupled model simulations for CMIP5

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 161-180

  Rashid, Harun A ^a   Sullivan, Arnold ^a   Hirst, Anthony C ^a   Bi, Daohua ^a   Zhou, Xiaobing ^b   Marsland, Simon J ^a  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOPOTENTIAL; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; THERMOCLINE; TROPOSPHERE; WIND STRESS; ZONAL WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84882334282     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6301.010     Document Type: Article

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