Temporal structure of the southern oscillation as revealed by waveform and wavelet analysis

Journal of Climate

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1586-1598

  Wang, Bin ^a,b   Wang, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; QUASI BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TEMPORAL STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM TRANSFORM; WAVELET TRANSFORM;

EID: 0030429409     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<1586:TSOTSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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