Historical forcings as main drivers of the Atlantic multidecadal variability in the CESM large ensemble

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 50, Issue 9-10, 2018, Pages 3687-3698

  Bellomo, Katinka ^a   Murphy, Lisa N ^b   Cane, Mark A ^a   Clement, Amy C ^b   Polvani, Lorenzo M ^a,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE FORCING; DECADAL VARIATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GREENHOUSE GAS; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 85026456157     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3834-3     Document Type: Article

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