On the relation between ENSO and global climate change

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 229-242

  Tsonis, A A ^a   Hunt, A G ^b   Elsner, J B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 0346905481     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-003-0001-7     Document Type: Article

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