Impact of dynamical and stochastic processes on the predictability of ENSO

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 2089-2092

  Flügel, Moritz ^a   Chang, Ping ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CHAOS THEORY; CLIMATOLOGY; DYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC FEEDBACK; COUPLED OCEAN ATMOSPHERE MODEL; NOISE FORCING; REDUCED GRAVITY OCEAN; STOCHASTIC FORCING; SURFACE HEAT FLUX;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ENSO; MODELLING; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; STOCHASTIC FORCING;

EID: 0030209423     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01959     Document Type: Article

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