High- and low-frequency intraseasonal variance of OLR on annual and ENSO timescales

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 968-986

  Vincent, Dayton G ^a   Fink, Andreas ^b   Schrage, Jon M ^a   Speth, Peter ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SEASONALITY;

EID: 0031671514     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<0968:HALFIV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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