The "normality" of El Niño

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1027-1030

  Burgers, Gerrit ^a   Stephenson, David B ^b,c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NICKEL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; WIND EFFECTS;

EL NINO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AMPLITUDE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SKEWNESS;

EASTERN PACIFIC; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS; MONTHLY MEAN ANOMALIES; NONLINEAR PROCESS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; WESTERN PACIFIC;

EID: 0033560510     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900161     Document Type: Article

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