Exploring the impact of CMIP5 model biases on the simulation of North Atlantic decadal variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 5926-5934

  Menary, Matthew B ^a,b   Hodson, Daniel L R ^b   Robson, Jon I ^b   Sutton, Rowan T ^b   Wood, Richard A ^a   Hunt, Jonathan A ^c  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cmip5; decadal predictions; decadal variability; north atlantic; resolution; subpolar gyre

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

CMIP5; DECADAL PREDICTIONS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC; SUBPOLAR GYRES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GYRE; PREDICTION; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84938998596     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064360     Document Type: Article

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