Impact of the equatorial Atlantic sea surface temperature on the tropical Pacific in a CGCM

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 9-10, 2014, Pages 2539-2552

  Sasaki, Wataru ^a   Doi, Takeshi ^a   Richards, Kelvin J ^b   Masumoto, Yukio ^a,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coupled general circulation model; ENSO; Tropical Atlantic variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893162504     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2072-1     Document Type: Article

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