Pacific Decadal Oscillation and its relation to the extratropical atmospheric variation in CMIP5

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 1521-1540

  Yim, Bo Young ^a   Kwon, MinHo ^a   Min, Hong Sik ^a   Kug, Jong Seong ^b  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aleutian Low (AL); Coupled general circulation models (CGCMs); Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO); PDO to AL feedback

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84924042210     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2349-4     Document Type: Article

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