Testing the stochastic mechanism for low-frequency variations in ENSO predictability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Zhang, Li ^a   Flügel, Moritz ^a   Chang, Ping ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; MEMBRANES; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

INTERMEDIATE COUPLED MODEL (ICM); COUPLED SYSTEMS; DECADAL VARIATIONS; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION; INTERMEDIATE COUPLED MODEL; LOW-FREQUENCY VARIATIONS; NULL HYPOTHESIS; STOCHASTIC FORCING; VARYING BACKGROUND;

GEOPHYSICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 0348044458     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017505     Document Type: Article

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