Evaluation of the interdecadal variability of sea surface temperature and sea level in the Pacific in CMIP3 and CMIP5 models

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 3723-3740

  Lyu, Kewei ^a,b   Zhang, Xuebin ^b   Church, John A ^b   Hu, Jianyu ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

CMIP3; CMIP5; evaluation; Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation; sea level; sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

CMIP3; CMIP5; EVALUATION; INTER-DECADAL PACIFIC OSCILLATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CMIP; DECADAL VARIATION; SEA LEVEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND FORCING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84953239525     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4587     Document Type: Article

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