North American climate in CMIP5 experiments. Part II: Evaluation of historical simulations of intraseasonal to decadal variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 9247-9290

  Sheffield, Justin ^a   Camargo, Suzana J ^b   Fu, Rong ^c   Hu, Qi ^d   Jiang, Xianan ^e   Johnson, Nathaniel ^f   Karnauskas, Kristopher B ^g   Kim, Seon Tae ^h   Kinter, Jim ⁱ   Kumar, Sanjiv ⁱ   Langenbrunner, Baird ^j   Maloney, Eric ^k   Mariotti, Annarita ^l   Meyerson, Joyce E ^j   Neelin, J David ^j   Nigam, Sumant ^m   Pan, Zaitao ⁿ   Ruiz Barradas, Alfredo ^m   Seager, Richard ^b   Serra, Yolande L ^o   Sun, De Zheng ^p   Wang, Chunzai ^q   Xie, Shang Ping ^f   Yu, Jin Yi ^r   Zhang, Tao ^p   Zhao, Ming ^l   more..

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^e Los Angeles   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^h CSIRO   (Australia)

ⁱ CENTER FOR OCEAN LAND ATMOSPHERE STUDIES   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^l NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^m Bldg 142   (United States)

ⁿ SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^q ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Coupled models; Decadal variability; Interannual variability; Intraseasonal variability; North America; Regional effects

Indexed keywords

COUPLED MODELS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; NORTH AMERICA; REGIONAL EFFECTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; DECADAL VARIATION; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL AMERICA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84884263744     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00593.1     Document Type: Article

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