El Niño, La Niña, and the nonlinearity of their teleconnections

Journal of Climate

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1769-1786

  Hoerling, Martin P ^a   Kumar, Arun ^b   Zhong, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN OSCILLATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

EID: 0031207768     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<1769:ENOLNA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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