Analysis of the characteristics and mechanisms of the pacific decadal oscillation in a suite of coupled models from the geophysical fluid dynamics laboratory

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 7678-7701

  Zhang, Liping ^a,b   Delworth, Thomas L ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decadal variability; Variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICS; MECHANICAL WAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE WATERS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CHARACTERISTICS AND MECHANISMS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION VARIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); VARIABILITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DECADAL VARIATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; NORTH AMERICA; OYASHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84947718818     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00647.1     Document Type: Article

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