The ocean's role in modeling and predicting decadal climate variations

International Geophysics

Volumn 103, Issue , 2013, Pages 645-665

  Latif, Mojib ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate dynamics; Climate modeling; Climate predictability; Climate prediction; Climate variability; Decadal climate predictability; Internal climate variability; Ocean circulation variability; Ocean dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886386950     PISSN: 00746142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-391851-2.00025-8     Document Type: Chapter

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