Analysis of Decadal Climate Variability in the Tropical Pacific by Coupled GCM

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 204-208

  Ya Le, Zhang ^a,b   Yong Qiang, Yu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

air sea interaction; coupled GCM; meridional heat transport; Pacific decadal oscillation

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT TRANSFER; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TRADE WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84885681172     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2011.11446930     Document Type: Article

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