Indian Ocean warming during 1958-2004 simulated by a climate system model and its mechanism

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 203-217

  Dong, Lu ^a,b   Zhou, Tianjun ^a,c   Wu, Bo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Climate system model; External forcing; Indian Ocean; Internal variability; SST warming

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; HEAT BUDGET; LATENT HEAT FLUX; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84891634381     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1722-z     Document Type: Article

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