Annual cycle of Pacific-North American seasonal predictability associated with different phases of ENSO

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3295-3308

  Kumar, Arun ^a   Hoerling, Martin P ^b  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPOSPHERE;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PREDICTION; SEASONALITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032444451     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<3295:ACOPNA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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