Long-term behavior of the atlantic interhemispheric sst gradient in the cmip5 historical simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 8628-8640

  Chiang, John C H ^a   Chang, C Y ^a,c   Wehner, M F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Risk Management Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate variability; Coupled models; Multidecadal variability; Trends

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE WATERS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODELS; HISTORICAL SIMULATION; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; TREND; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TREND ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84884260633     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-12-00487.1     Document Type: Article

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