El Niño-La Niña asymmetry in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2617-2627

  An, Soon Il ^a   Ham, Yoo Geun ^b   Kug, Jong Seong ^b   Jin, Fei Fei ^c   Kang, In Sik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); EL NINO-LA NINA ASYMMETRY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ASYMMETRY; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO; LA NINA;

EID: 26844561586     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3433.1     Document Type: Article

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