A western Pacific oscillator paradigm for the El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 779-782

  Weisberg, Robert H ^a   Wang, Chunzai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEAT CONVECTION; WIND; NICKEL; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE WATERS;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS (ENSO); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSO; MECHANISM; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND; WINDS;

PACIFIC, (WEST);

DELAYED OSCILLATORS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; OSCILLATOR MODEL; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; WAVE REFLECTIONS; WESTERN BOUNDARY;

EID: 0031126522     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00689     Document Type: Article

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