El Niño Southern Oscillation in an ensemble ocean reanalysis and coupled climate models

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4052-4071

  Yang, Chunxue ^a,b   Giese, Benjamin S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

climate change; climate model; data assimilation; El Ni o

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; WIND EFFECTS;

COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; LONG-TERM CHANGES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 84887078688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20284     Document Type: Article

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