ENSO warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) event life cycles: Ocean surface anomaly patterns, their symmetries, asymmetries, and implications

Journal of Climate

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1118-1140

  Larkin, Narasimhan K ^a   Harrison, D E ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIFE CYCLE; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MARINE SURFACE ANOMALIES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LA NINA; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

(TROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037092723     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<1118:EWENOA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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