EI Niño: A coupled response to radiative heating?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 2031-2034

  Sun, De Zheng ^a,b  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TROPICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT RADIATION; HEATING; HOPF BIFURCATION; NICKEL; RADIANT HEATING; SURFACE WATERS;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) PHENOMENON; RADIATIVE HEATING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (ST) GRADIENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; EL NINO; RADIATIVE HEATING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPICS;

PACIFIC, (TROPICAL);

ANTHROPOGENIC FORCING; COUPLED RESPONSE; NATURAL VARIABILITY; OSCILLATORY BEHAVIORS; OSCILLATORY STATE; PITCH-FORK BIFURCATIONS; RADIATIVE HEATING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS;

EID: 0031200993     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01960     Document Type: Article

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