Interdecadal change of the structure of the ENSO mode and its impact on the ENSO frequency

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2044-2055

  An, Soon Il ^a   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WIND STRESS;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; INTERDECADAL CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; THERMOCLINE; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 0034209939     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<2044:ICOTSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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