Mechanisms for lagged atmospheric response to ENSO SST forcing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 4195-4215

  Su, Hui ^a   Neelin, J David ^a   Meyerson, Joyce E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 28244496122     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3514.1     Document Type: Article

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