The impact of ENSO on atmospheric intraseasonal variability as inferred from observations and GCM simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1902-1924

  Tam, Chi Yung ^a,b   Lau, Ngar Cheung ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

ATMOSPHERIC INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION;

DRYAS IULIA;

EID: 24644505700     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3399.1     Document Type: Article

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