Tropical Pacific internal atmospheric dynamics and resolution in a coupled GCM

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 509-527

  Lopez, Hosmay ^a   Kirtman, Ben P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric noise; Climate simulations; Couple models; ENSO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939892272     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2220-7     Document Type: Article

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