Volcanic aerosol perturbations and strong El Niño events: No general correlation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1247-1250

  Self, S ^a   Rampino, M R ^b,c   Zhao, J ^a   Katz, M G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION EVENTS; STRATOSPHERE; VOLCANIC AEROSOL PERTURBATIONS; VOLCANIC EXPLOSIVITY INDEX;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AEROSOL; AEROSOL PERTURBATIONS; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSO; STRATOSPHERE; VOLCANIC AEROSOL; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EID: 0031147786     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01127     Document Type: Article

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