An evaluation of the CMIP3 and CMIP5 simulations in their skill of simulating the spatial structure of SST variability

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 95-114

  Wang, Gang ^a   Dommenget, Dietmar ^a   Frauen, Claudia ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate variability; CMIP; Eigenvalue projection; Model evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939885345     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2154-0     Document Type: Article

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