Importance of oceanic resolution and mean state on the extra-tropical response to El Niño in a matrix of coupled models

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 1439-1452

  Dawson, Andrew ^a,d   Matthews, Adrian J ^a   Stevens, David P ^a   Roberts, Malcolm J ^b   Vidale, Pier Luigi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basic state; ENSO; Extra tropical SST; GCM; North Pacific

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RESOLUTION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84884703459     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1518-6     Document Type: Article

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