The nonnormal nature of El Nino and intraseasonal variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2965-2982

  Moore, Andrew M ^a   Kleeman, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; LINEAR SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; SYSTEM STABILITY; TROPICS;

COUPLED OCEAN ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; EL NINO; GENERALIZED LINEAR STABILITY THEORY; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY;

DROUGHT;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WALKER CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033208160     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<2965:TNNOEN>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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