El Niño chaos: The role of noise and stochastic resonance on the ENSO cycle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 175-178

  Stone, Lewi ^a   Saparin, Peter I ^a   Huppert, Amit ^a   Price, Colin ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CIRCUIT RESONANCE; CLIMATOLOGY; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; RESONANCE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WHITE ACOUSTIC NOISE;

CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FLUCTUATIONS; NOISE INTENSITIES; NOISE-INDUCED CHAOS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STOCHASTIC RESONANCES; THERMOCLINE DEPTH; THRESHOLD LEVELS;

NICKEL; GLOBAL WARMING;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) PHENOMENA;

EID: 0031646945     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL53639     Document Type: Article

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