The Pacific decadal oscillation, revisited

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 4399-4427

  Newman, Matthew ^a,b   Alexander, Michael A ^b   Ault, Toby R ^c   Cobb, Kim M ^d   Deser, Clara ^e   Di Lorenzo, Emanuele ^d   Mantua, Nathan J ^f   Miller, Arthur J ^g   Minobe, Shoshiro ^h   Nakamura, Hisashi ^i,j   Schneider, Niklas ^k   Vimont, Daniel J ^l   Phillips, Adam S ^e   Scott, James D ^a,b   Smith, Catherine A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f NOAA SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^j JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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Author keywords

Atm Ocean structure Phenomena; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate classification regimes; Model evaluation performance; Models and modeling; Pacific decadal oscillation; Paleoclimate; Physical meteorology and climatology; Variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION/REGIMES; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATES; VARIABILITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE MODELING; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84974782429     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0508.1     Document Type: Article

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