A comparison of the influence of additive and multiplicative stochastic forcing on a coupled model of ENSO

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 5066-5085

  Perez, Christina L ^a,b   Moore, Andrew M ^c   Zavala Garay, Javier ^d   Kleeman, Richard ^e  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EL NIÑO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); LOW-FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; MULTIPLICATIVE STOCHASTIC FORCING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION;

EID: 31344473369     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3596.1     Document Type: Article

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