Tracking down the ENSO delayed oscillator with an adjoint OGCM

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1477-1495

  Van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan ^a   Burgers, Gerrit ^a   Venzke, Stephan ^b   Eckert, Christian ^b   Giering, Ralf ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032730920     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1477:tdtedo>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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