Predictability of El Niño over the past 148 years

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6984, 2004, Pages 733-736

  Chen, Dake ^a,b   Cane, Mark A ^a   Kaplan, Alexey ^a   Zebiak, Stephen E ^a   Huang, Daji ^b  

^a L D Earth Observ Columbia Univ ^*  (United States)

^b Ministry of Natural Resources of the People s Republic of China   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RANDOM PROCESSES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC NOISE; CLIMATE EVENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; EL NINO; PREDICTION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CALCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; EL NINO; FORECASTING; OSCILLATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 1942520295     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02439     Document Type: Article

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