Response of the equatorial pacific seasonal cycle to orbital forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 9258-9276

  Erb, Michael P ^a,b   Broccoli, Anthony J ^a,c   Graham, Neal T ^a   Clement, Amy C ^d   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^e   Vecchi, Gabriel A ^e  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

General circulation models; Geographic location entity; Heat budgets fluxes; Models and modeling; Pacific Ocean; Paleoclimate; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Radiative forcing; Seasonal cycle; Variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; STREAM FLOW; THERMODYNAMICS;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; HEAT BUDGETS/FLUXES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALEOCLIMATES; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SEASONAL CYCLE; VARIABILITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECESSION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84950135765     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0242.1     Document Type: Article

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