Teaching old indices new tricks: A state-space analysis of El Niño related climate indices

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Mendelssohn, Roy ^a   Bograd, Steven J ^a   Schwing, Franklin B ^a   Palacios, Daniel M ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OSCILLATIONS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; NICKEL; SEA LEVEL; STATE SPACE METHODS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

EL NIÑO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); NORTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX (NOI); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX (SOI);

STATE SPACE METHODS; CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; NON-PARAMETRIC TRENDS; NORTHERN OSCILLATION INDICES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; STATE - SPACE MODELS; STATE-SPACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 21844459263     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022350     Document Type: Article

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