Potential tropical Atlantic impacts on Pacific decadal climate trends

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 7143-7151

  Chikamoto, Y ^a   Mochizuki, T ^b   Timmermann, A ^a   Kimoto, M ^c   Watanabe, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

atmosphere ocean interaction; climate change; data assimilation; decadal climate variability; global warming hiatus

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; COUPLED GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; NORTH-EASTERN PACIFIC; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HIATUS; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 84978115978     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069544     Document Type: Article

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