Atlantic forcing of Pacific decadal variability

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 7-8, 2016, Pages 2337-2351

  Kucharski, Fred ^a,b   Ikram, Farah ^c   Molteni, Franco ^d   Farneti, Riccardo ^a   Kang, In Sik ^e   No, Hyun Ho ^e   King, Martin P ^f   Giuliani, Graziano ^a   Mogensen, Kristian ^d  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c PAKISTAN METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT   (Pakistan)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^e Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^f BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atlantic forcing; Climate shift; Climate variability; Pacific mean state change

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE FORCING; DECADAL VARIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WALKER CIRCULATION; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (WEST); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84931306784     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2705-z     Document Type: Article

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