Why do North American climate anomalies differ from one El Niño event to another?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1059-1062

  Hoerling, Martin P ^a   Kumar, Arun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; NICKEL; SURFACE WATERS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; NORTH AMERICAN; OCEAN FORECASTING; SCALE PATTERN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE;

EL NINO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SST);

CLIMATE ANOMALY; EL NINO; GCM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0031133873     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00918     Document Type: Article

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