Locking of El Nino's peak time to the end of the calendar year in the delayed oscillator picture of ENSO

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2191-2199

  Tziperman, Eli ^a   Cane, Mark A ^b   Zebiak, Stephen E ^b   Xue, Yan ^b   Blumenthal, B ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean coupling; El Nino Southern Oscillation; Oscillation; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OSCILLATION; SEASONALITY;

EID: 0032454207     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<2191:LOENOS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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