Observed and simulated fingerprints of multidecadal climate variability and their contributions to periods of global SST stagnation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 721-737

  Barcikowska, Monika J ^a   Knutson, Thomas R ^b   Zhang, Rong ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decadal variability; Multidecadal variability; North Atlantic Oscillation; North Pacific Oscillation; Tropical variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; TROPICS;

DECADAL VARIABILITY; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NORTH PACIFIC; TROPICAL VARIABILITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 85008712476     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0443.1     Document Type: Article

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