Internal climate memory in observations and models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1232-1242

  Monselesan, Didier P ^a   O'Kane, Terence J ^a   Risbey, James S ^a   Church, John ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

CMIP5; intrinsic climate variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CMIP5; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84924901998     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062765     Document Type: Article

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