Triggering of El Niño by westerly wind events in a coupled general circulation model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 601-620

  Lengaigne, Matthieu ^a   Guilyardi, Eric ^b   Boulanger, Jean Philippe ^a   Menkes, Christophe ^a   Delecluse, Pascale ^c   Inness, Pete ^b   Cole, Jeff ^b   Slingo, Julia ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WIND FORCING;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); WORLD;

EID: 10444244132     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-004-0457-2     Document Type: Article

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