A method for detecting season-dependent modes of climate variability: S-EOF analysis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Wang, Bin ^a   An, Soon Il ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOPHYSICS; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOLAR RADIATION;

ANOMALOUS CLIMATE; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); LA NINA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASON-RELIANT EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION (S-EOF);

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANOMALY; CLIMATE VARIATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; WARMING;

EID: 25844498404     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022709     Document Type: Article

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