El Niño/Southern Oscillation and the annual cycle: Subharmonic frequency-locking and aperiodicity

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 98, Issue 2-4, 1996, Pages 442-465

  Jin, Fei Fei ^a   Neelin, J David ^b   Ghil, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Climate variability; Coupled ocean atmosphere dynamics; Frequency locking; Stochastic forcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001742981     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-2789(96)00111-X     Document Type: Article

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