What caused the onset of the 1997-98 El Niño?

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 7 II, 2000, Pages 2601-2607

  Van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; EL NINO; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WIND FORCING;

EID: 0033827963     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<2601:wctoot>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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