Unfolding the relation between global temperature and ENSO

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1-4

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

GLOBAL TEMPERATURE; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; WARMING CLIMATE;

GEOPHYSICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 21044459670     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022875     Document Type: Article

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