Resonance in bidecadal and pentadecadal climate oscillations over the North Pacific: Role in climatic regime shifts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 855-858

  Minobe, Shoshiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; OSCILLATIONS; RESONANCE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; ACCIDENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

CLIMATIC REGIME SHIFTS; NORTH PACIFIC; PENTADECADAL CLIMATE OSCILLATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; OSCILLATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

ALEUTIAN LOW; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATIC REGIMES; INTERDECADAL; NORTH PACIFIC; PHASE REVERSAL; REGIME SHIFT; SPRING SEASON;

EID: 0033117512     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900119     Document Type: Article

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