The role of historical forcings in simulating the observed Atlantic multidecadal oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2472-2480

  Murphy, Lisa N ^a   Bellomo, Katinka ^b   Cane, Mark ^b   Clement, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic multidecadal oscillation; CESM LE; CMIP5

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; CESM-LE; CMIP5; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CMIP; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION; PROBABILITY;

EID: 85014892244     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL071337     Document Type: Article

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