Improving El Niño prediction using a space-time integration of Indo-Pacific winds and equatorial Pacific upper ocean heat content

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Clarke, Allan J ^a   Van Gorder, Stephen ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; OCEAN ENGINEERING; WIND; ENTHALPY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SPACE-TIME INTEGRATION; CROSS-VALIDATED HINDCASTS; EASTERN EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; NEAR-NEUTRAL CONDITIONS; SEASONAL CYCLE; WESTERN PACIFIC; WIND ANOMALIES;

GEOPHYSICS; NICKEL;

ANOMALY; EL NINO; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; FORECASTING METHOD; HEAT BALANCE; UPPER OCEAN; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 0141762350     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016673     Document Type: Article

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