A mechanism for generating ENSO decadal variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1743-1746

  Kleeman, Richard ^a,c   McCreary Jr , Julian P ^b   Klinger, Barry A ^a,b,c  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

EL NINO; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

EID: 0033563598     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900352     Document Type: Article

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