Impacts of Indian Ocean SST biases on the Indian Monsoon: As simulated in a global coupled model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 271-290

  Prodhomme, Chloé ^a   Terray, Pascal ^a   Masson, Sébastien ^a   Izumo, Takeshi ^a   Tozuka, Tomoki ^b   Yamagata, Toshio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabian Sea; Coupled climate model; Indian Monsoon; Model systematic errors; Ocean atmosphere interaction

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84891625377     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1671-6     Document Type: Article

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