Hindcast of the 1976/77 and 1998/99 climate shifts in the Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7650-7661

  Ding, Hui ^a   Greatbatch, Richard J ^a   Latif, Mojib ^a   Park, Wonsun ^a   Gerdes, Rüdiger ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate prediction; ENSO; Hindcasts; Model initialization; North Pacific Oscillation; Pacific decadal oscillation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSO; HINDCASTS; MODEL INITIALIZATION; NORTH PACIFIC; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HINDCASTING; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84884960891     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00626.1     Document Type: Article

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