Interpretation and implications of the observed inter-El Niño variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 83-91

  Kumar, Arun ^a,c   Hoerling, Martin P ^b  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; EL NINO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST ANOMALIES; VARIABILITY; VARIATION;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC;

EID: 0030927375     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<0083:IAIOTO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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