Growth and decay of the Equatorial Atlantic SST mode by means of closed heat budget in a coupled General Circulation Model

Growth and decay of the Equatorial Atlantic SST mode by means of closed heat budget in a coupled General Circulation Model

Tropical Atlantic variability is strongly biased in coupled General Circulation Models (GCM). Most of the models present a mean Sea Surface Temperature (SST) bias pattern that resembles the leading mode of inter-annual SST variability. Thus, understanding the causes of the main mode of variability o...

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Main Authors: Irene ePolo, Alban eLazar, Belen eRodriguez-Fonseca, Juliette eMignot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
Subjects:
Heat budget
GCM biases
Atlantic Niño
Tropical Atlantic variability
Upwelling processes
West African rainfall
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/feart.2015.00037/full

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