Regional precipitation simulations for the mid-1970s shift and early-2000s hiatus

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 7658-7665

  Meehl, Gerald A ^a   Teng, Haiyan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

decadal climate prediction

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES; INTER-DECADAL PACIFIC OSCILLATIONS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DECADAL VARIATION; HIATUS; HINDCASTING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84912074735     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061778     Document Type: Article

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