The linear response of ENSO to the Madden-Julian Oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2441-2459

  Zavala Garay, Javier ^a   Zhang, C ^a   Moore, A M ^b   Kleeman, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WIND EFFECTS; WIND STRESS;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); LINEAR RESPONSE; MAIDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION (MJO); OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS; SURFACE WIND; WIND ANOMALIES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

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

EID: 23644455717     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3408.1     Document Type: Article

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