Spatial patterns and frequency of unforced decadal-scale changes in global mean surface temperature in climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 6245-6257

  Middlemas, Eleanor A ^a   Clement, Amy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Climate variability; Decadal variability; ENSO; Interdecadal variability; Pacific decadal oscillation; Physical Meteorology and Climatology; Radiative fluxes; Variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIABILITY; ENSO; INTER-DECADAL VARIABILITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RADIATIVE FLUXES; VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84983564560     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0609.1     Document Type: Article

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