Is climate variability over the North Pacific a linear response to ENSO?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1468-1478

  Zhang, Yuan ^a   Wallace, John M ^a   Iwasaka, Naoto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; COUPLED ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN MODEL; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0030504888     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<1468:ICVOTN>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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