Understanding the double peaked El Niño in coupled GCMs

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 48, Issue 5-6, 2017, Pages 2045-2063

  Graham, Felicity S ^a   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^b   Brown, Jaclyn N ^c   Marsland, Simon J ^c   Holbrook, Neil J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; CMIP5; Cold tongue bias; Coupled general circulation model; El Ni o evolution

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84973146894     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3189-1     Document Type: Article

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