Recent forecast skill for the El Niño/Southern Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 171-174

  Ghil, Michael ^a   Jiang, Ning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; NICKEL; OCEANOGRAPHY; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACE WATERS; TIME SERIES;

EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) PHENOMENA; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX (SOI);

GLOBAL WARMING; FORECASTING;

LOW DIMENSIONALITY; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; PERIODIC COMPONENTS; QUASI-PERIODICITIES; SCALAR TIME SERIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 0031699433     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03635     Document Type: Article

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