Stochastically induced climate shift of El Nino-Southern Oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2473-2476

  Flügel, Moritz ^a   Chang, Ping ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; WIND EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NICKEL; OCEANOGRAPHY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE SHIFT; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE SHIFTS; COMPETING MECHANISMS; NULL HYPOTHESIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

EID: 0343484962     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900550     Document Type: Article

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