An eigen analysis of the interdecadal changes in the structure and frequency of ENSO mode

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 2573-2576

  An, Soon Il ^a   Jin, Fei Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FREQUENCIES; LINEAR SYSTEMS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WAVE EQUATIONS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

CANE-ZEBIAK MODEL; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION MODE; EQUATORIAL OCEAN DYNAMICS; INTERDECADAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE FEEDBACK; ZONAL ADVECTION;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE SHIFTS; COUPLED MODE; EIGEN ANALYSIS; INTERDECADAL; INTERDECADAL CHANGES; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; QUANTITATIVE CHANGES; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

EID: 0034352695     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011090     Document Type: Article

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