Estimation of the SST response to anthropogenic and external forcing and its impact on the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation and the Pacific decadal oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 2017, Pages 9871-9895

  Frankignoul, Claude ^a   Gastineau, Guillaume ^a   Kwon, Young Oh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Decadal variability; Multidecadal variability; Pacific decadal oscillation; Pattern detection; Trends

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; VOLCANOES;

DECADAL VARIABILITY; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PATTERN DETECTION; TRENDS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 85036644541     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0009.1     Document Type: Article

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