Cold tongue and warm pool ENSO Events in CMIP5: Mean state and future projections

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2861-2885

  Taschetto, Andréa S ^a   Gupta, Alexander Sen ^a   Jourdain, Nicolas C ^a   Santoso, Agus ^a   Ummenhofer, Caroline C ^b   England, Matthew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; LAKES;

COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EQUATORIAL WINDS; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; WESTERN PACIFIC; ZONAL CURRENTS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 84898036185     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00437.1     Document Type: Article

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