The nonlinear patterns of North American winter temperature and precipitation associated with ENSO

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1736-1752

  Wu, Aiming ^a   Hsieh, William W ^a   Shabbar, Amir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONES; NEURAL NETWORKS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING;

NONLINEAR PRECIPITATION RESPONSE; POLYNOMIAL FIT; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES (SSTA);

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

EID: 22944460742     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3372.1     Document Type: Article

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