Reassessing the role of stochastic forcing in the 1997-1998 El Niño

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Vecchi, Gabriel A ^a,b   Wittenberg, A T ^a   Rosati, A ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (AGCM); EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); HYBRID COUPLED MODEL (HCM); STOCHASTIC ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EL NINO; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 33644624498     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024738     Document Type: Article

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