Evolution and forcing mechanisms of El Niño over the past 21,000 years

Nature

Volumn 515, Issue 7528, 2014, Pages 550-553

  Liu, Zhengyu ^a,b   Lu, Zhengyao ^b   Wen, Xinyu ^c   Otto Bliesner, B L ^c   Timmermann, A ^d   Cobb, K M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; DEGLACIATION; EL NINO; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MELTWATER DISCHARGE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA; SIMULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84923114401     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13963     Document Type: Article

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