Equatorial Atlantic variability and its relation to mean state biases in CMIP5

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 171-188

  Richter, Ingo ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^b,c   Behera, Swadhin K ^a   Doi, Takeshi ^a   Masumoto, Yukio ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bjerknes feedback; CMIP5; Double ITCZ; Equatorial Atlantic; Equatorial Kelvin waves; GCM biases; Interannual variability; Surface winds

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; KELVIN WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WIND; THERMOCLINE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84891624417     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1624-5     Document Type: Article

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