Southern ocean sector centennial climate variability and recent decadal trends

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7767-7782

  Latif, Mojib ^a   Martin, Torge ^b   Park, Wonsun ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate variability; Decadal variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CENTENNIAL VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIABILITY; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; METEOROLOGY; NATURAL CONVECTION; SEA ICE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84884964405     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00281.1     Document Type: Article

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