The leading mode of observed and CMIP5 ENSO-residual sea surface temperatures and associated changes in indo-pacific climate

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4309-4329

  Funk, Chris C ^a   Hoell, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coupled models; Decadal variability; Pacific Ocean; Radiative forcing; Trends

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; NANOFLUIDICS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; SURFACE WATERS; WIND EFFECTS;

COUPLED MODELS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; PACIFIC OCEAN; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; TRENDS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CMIP; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS; WALKER CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84980332263     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00334.1     Document Type: Article

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